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ry moment have in view; and then no 

 wonder if many ufeful kinds of plants ^re 

 totally negleded and forgotten by theni. 

 The fpir^a frutex^ is bv fome the fiery 

 froftive, and the ch^rophylhm^ cartfoyle. 

 Nor would it, I humbly prefume, be oat 

 of the purpofe, if gentlemen of eftates 

 would choofe out fuch amongft their te- 

 nants and farmers fons, as appear to have 

 fome degree of capacity and underftand- 

 ing, or choofe fome honeft, clean-looking 

 boy, out of a charity or other fchool, and 

 take him an apprentice for this purpofc, 

 having firft initiated him well in the rudi- 

 ments of learning, and furniflied him with 

 books proper for fuch occafions ; this mufl 

 certainly in time much mend the breed of 

 Gardiners, and difcourage thofe numbers 

 of icrnorant ftrollers that wander about, def- 

 titute of every thing but impudence ; whilft 

 others of good capacity are perhaps put 

 to coblers, flioemakers or weavers, that 

 might have made ingenious Husbandmen 

 and Gardiners, ufefiil in their generation, 

 and proper for the improvements of their 

 country. 



However fliort and concife I have been 

 in this part of my undertaking, I have, as 

 the follov/ing Treatife will evince, been 



very 



