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I tnight ftill produce much more m ]u(- 

 tification of the iiiduftrv of the prefcnt 

 race of Gar diners, and the improvements 

 they have made in this particular part of 

 Gardening ; but herein I would not be un- 

 derftood to include that number of wan- 

 dering fellows, who with a little know- 

 ledge, but a great deal of impudence, in- 

 vade thefc Southern climates, and by ferv- 

 ing for little wages deceive thofe that are 

 fo weak and unwife as to hire them, with 

 an afliirance of doing mighty things. 



But as I have taken thcfc gentlemen to 

 task in another treatife, I (hall leave them 

 to themfelves now, and, to carry the ac- 

 quifition and induil:ry of the prefent age 

 farther, (hall obferve that the improvements 

 that have been thus made are chiefly the 

 refult of practice, and not altogether by 

 books. 



For tho' the works of that laborious and 

 ingenious Gardiner Moniieur De la Onin- 

 tinje^ and of Mr. Evelyn, and others that 

 have followed his fteps, are juftly allowed 

 to be the bell: of this kind that have yet 

 been publilhed ; yet if it be confidered 

 how different that climate he wrote in is 

 from ours, it will be no wonder that wc 

 differ from him in fome particukrs, not be- 

 ing 



