THE 



PREFACE. 



S the Three former Imprejjlons of this 

 Work have been a confiderable Tune 

 fold off] and as there hath been lately 

 a new Edition of the Gardeners 

 Dictionary, in which there are many 

 Additions and Alterations from the 

 former Imprefjions of that Work-, it was judged pro- 

 per to include thofe i?i this Abridgment, in order to 

 render it more complete as a/Jo that it might corre- 

 fpond better with the Folio Edition. 



This Edition, therefore, is an Abridgjnent of the 

 Jajl Folio, and includes the practical Part of Gar- 

 dening, and Husbandry, which is contained in that 

 Work ; and it is only the fpeculative Parts, which 

 are either abridged, or wholly omitted. 



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