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Fe ere entree Renee tae ag oe MRR ee Se nes 
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re he ANSWER of the Proprietors of the Compleat Body of 
Gardening, to the Objections made by the Author of the 
Gardeners Dictionary. oe te Ail 
35 C N. the Appearance of the firft Number-of the Compurar Bopy op 
: ! GARDENING, the Proprietors of Mr. Miller's Dictionary propoled that 
| Book in Weekly Numbers: An Artifice to. divide the Attention 
of the Publick, and prejudice the Sale of our Original Work, 4 soso! 
They have in great Part-adopted our Plan, and engaged to model their Book | 
according to it. (See Col... &c,) But of this we apprehend it is not capable. — 
They accompany their Defign with many Columns of Cenfure on our Work; 
to the feveral Articles of which we give the following Anfwers. a 
_. Our Characters of Canna. they fay are taken from Livneus, and ‘the De- 
{cription of that Plant from anoruer Boox. ‘The Characters are from the 
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F lower itfelf; and they agree with Linneus, becaufe his are juft: The Defcrip- 
tion is from the Boox or Narurg. eat iG i ’ 
“Their Author {ays the Fig Hibifeus is not .a handfome Plant, and that it 
cannot live out of a Stove. Commeline* and Ray § celebrate it for its Beauty ; ont Bee 
and it flowered this Year, in open Ground at efbourn\ Green, We fee in this. slo rpmente 
.the Confequence of a miftaken Culture, This ingenious Gardener never faw « I, Sibel ag 
elegantiam, Com- 
“the Pig Hibifcus, but where it was choaked in a Stove ; and he did not know ain aaa, | 
m\e in.its natural Form. The Figure he fuppofes copied from India Paper. Mr. 5 2. flare elegans ° 
% 3 ? for toe & | ttt Nose pr a " * tram colt meretur. 
Ray. Hii. Plane, 
ao ~The branched and upright’ Lark/pur differ, they fay, in Species. THe. PP Prats 
3 ‘who cenfures Linnceus miuft be a Mafter of Learning and of Science: Their Av- 
thor deferves Refpea, for the Knowledge he has attained without the Advantage _ 
of. an Education but it is not enough to raife him as an Antagonift againft 
Linneus; wnlets their Modefty would: have the Publick think, he knows thofe 
‘Things which can.only be. i: in the Books of the\Learned, better than 
thofe who wrote them... a A 8 ae I igs tees BIS 
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_ He frequently and. freely affirms Linneus is miftaken’: but, if it were fo, 
how-could he know it? - Linnaeus wrote in Latin: A Language he evidently 
does not underftand, even in the Names of Species. . Foltis.carinatis is tran- 
Mlated Flefhy Leaves, in the Plants adapted to the Gardeners Dictionary. 
We fhall give a Method by which the Seeds ‘of othe. Single Okauder will 
 »produce the Dewb/e; and ‘the fame Cea aecite it 1 
» .. The Indian Neriwm their Author fays has no Beauty. “This depends in 
_ fome Degree on Fancy ; but moft.probably he miftakes the Plant: For wanting 
the Language in 
__ them only from Hear-fay or Conjecture. 
n which the Species are deferibed, he can know moft of 
Having thus cenfured the Scientifick, Part of our firft Number, they proceed 
fT The Beginning 
' Little Work, they fay, is mentioned in the Flower-Garden for the laft Week trsnis mech stant 
4 Lot Auguft. Let them read the Directions for the firft of September; and they Ne Ma 
Shrubs, for at this 
will find there Is No Deficiency. Seafon they gene- 
Ever-greens and hardy Shrubs, their Author here fays may not be planted at tally facceed better — 
hae than in the Spring, 
‘the fame Time, But Experience fays they may; and he knows it +. Miller's Gardeners 
‘The Lift of Fruits they cenfure as too {mall in our firft Number. They (alma tof Fa 
tion, Jrticle sep- 
forget they are the Fruits but of one Week. Let them add the Catalogues of tember. See the 
two Paffages at 
' -the three fucceeding, and compare them with a Month’s Fruit in their own large on the other 
Side. 
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