DEDICATION. 



out them. Befides which, there 

 is alfo, in the raifing of kitchen- 

 vegetables, a certain degree of 

 knowledge and diverfion, equal, 

 if not excelling, what any other 

 part of Gardening produces. Nor 

 can the Garden afford any thing 

 more delightful to view than thofe 

 forerts of afparagus, artichokes, let- 

 tuce, peafe, beanSj and other le- 

 gumes and edulous plants, fo dif- 

 ferent in colour, and of fuch va- 

 rious fliapes, rifing as it were from 

 the dead, and piercing the ground 

 in fo many thoufand places as they 

 do, courting the admiration, or re- 

 quiring the care of the diligent Gar- 

 clincr. 



It is a matter of no great im- 

 portance to mankind, when I fay 

 how much (it being my profeffion) 

 Iliave been myfelf charm'd with this 



