The P RE FA C E, 



ing able, till now, without great iiiduftry 

 and expence, to etfecl thofe things in this 

 cold uncertain region, that he could in 

 FrancCy and where he had the purfe of a 

 prince, as he tells us, that made his Gar- 

 dens one of the greateft felicities and glo- 

 ries of his reign ; and who was never bet- 

 ter pleas'd than when he was walking and 

 contemplating in them, and that fpared no 

 pains in the procuring of every thing that 

 was the beft and earlieft in its kinds. Ne- 

 verthelefs, where opportunity gives leave, 

 I have taken the fame liberty of raifing 

 plants and legumes early, on warm fituated 

 borders and hot-beds, as he has done, and 

 given what direftions I could for their cul- 

 ture and prefervation, there efpecially where 

 the foil is by nature (andy and warm, or is 

 fo made by art or induftry ; and to this 

 indeed the great induftry and practice of 

 our Neathoufe-men and Gardiners have 

 not a little contributed; fo that now we 

 feem to bid fair towards the outdoing the 

 French and other countries, in the early 

 produdions of our Fruit-Gardens and Pota- 

 gery. 



But to go on with the thread of this 

 Prefice : It muft be obferved alfo that the 

 laborious gentleman we have juft named is 



too 



