7he PREFACE. 



fuccory ; papaver corniculatim Inteum^ or 

 horned poppey, for cringo ; o^nanthe aqua- 

 ticUy for the paluftral apium ; and a world 

 more, whofe dire effeds have been many 

 times (iidden death, and the caufe of mor- 

 tal accidents to thofe who have eaten them 

 unwarily. 



Nor can it ('tis prefumed) be thought 

 any way inconfiftent with practice, that the 

 Gardiner have fome idea of the theory of 

 his art, and the names, etymologv, virtue 

 and properties of his plants ; verv certain it 

 is that the dipping into books of this kind 

 has brought over many to the delight of 

 Gardenino;, that othersvife would never 

 have made a ftep towards it ; and it is to 

 the laborious endeavours of Mr. Evelyn and 

 others in this way that more profelvtes have 

 been drawn over to the profelTion of gar- 

 dening, than to all the books of plain 

 diredions only that have ever been printed ; 

 and happy fliall I be if any thing I can ad- 

 vance mav add to the number, fince kitchen 

 gardening, tho' very ufefiil in it felf, is yet 

 a dry and mean ftudy, as well as a dirty 

 employ, unlefs it be enlivened with attempts 

 and endeavours of this nature. 



But to reftime the thread of my Preface : 

 the want of fome rnxoderate decree of learn- 



