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THE 



PREFACE. 



AS the ufefulnefs and delights of 

 the Garden are daily receiving 

 fuch very great additions, both 

 from the pens and pradice of many of its 

 induftrious and learned profefTors, amongfl: 

 the nobility, gentry and clergy, I judg'd I 

 could not better employ my time ( next to 

 duties of a much higher nature) as a Gar- 

 diner, than to throw in my endeavours, 

 and contribute, as much as I polfibly could, 

 towards the farther improvement of this 

 fo ufefiil an employ, at leifure times, and 

 when I might, perhaps, as well as others, 

 be much worfe employed ; and this not 

 only as it is my profeflion and employ, but 

 as it is my particular ftudy and delight; 

 towards which the authors I have read, 

 and the obfervations I have and am every 



a day 



