The PREFACE. 



For, as the fir ft Defign of the Author, in abridg- 

 ing the Gardeners Dictionary, was to reduce the Price 

 of the Book fo low, as that the Purchafe of it might 

 not be too great for the practical Gardeners ; and 

 alfo to prevent others, who he had great Reajbn to 

 believe i?it ended to have undertaken fuch a Perform- 

 ance, in Prejudice of the Author s Right to the Be* 

 nefit of his own Labour ; and that the Book might 

 he rendered more ufeful to thofe, for whofe Injlruc~iion 

 it was principally intended fo, if the Addition of 

 new Matter, which is included in the loft Folio Edi- 

 tion, had been omitted in this, the Public might have 

 ejieemed it an imperfedt Work, 



But in this the Author has had a particular Re- 

 gard to his Jirjl Intention, and has carefully avoided 

 the infer ting any thing, which might be fuppofed not 

 jo ejjential to the Practice of the Art ; which would 

 have fwelled the Book, and thereby augmented its 

 Price ; but, at the fame time, has not omitted any 

 Article, which tnay be of Ufe to thofe who are em- 

 ployed in the Profejjion. 



'The Alterations which are made in this Edition, 

 are chiefly in the Latin Names of the Plants 5 which 

 was not done with any Defign to depreciate the former 

 ' Editions : But, as there are many of thefe new Names 

 of the Plants, much more in Ufe than the former old 

 ones, fo the Work -would pave been ejieemed very im- 



ferfecl., 



