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to be attended to. In one tribe of plants, the succulents, 

 very few remarks will be found ; but those few are confirmed 

 by the practice of Adrian Hardy Haworth, Esq. our 

 most successful cultivator of them. 



I have quoted the names of the plants as they occur, first 

 in the two great Natural Classes of Monocoti/ledones, and 

 DicQtykdones ; and next according to their Natural Orders ; 

 which will hereafter, I doubt not, prove the best practical, 

 as well as scientific, method: for nothing can be more puzzling 

 to an unlearned gardener, than the sexual system, or indeed 

 any artificial system whatever : all of which break in pieces 

 with more or less violence, that chain, so many links of 

 which, in my humble opinion, the great Creator of the uni- 

 verse has left to us, in these latter days of the earth, still con- 

 tinuous and unbroken. The most ignorant labourer, who 

 has once seen a Pea blossom, or its pod, has no difficulty in 

 ascertaining the Order of most of the plants in that vast 

 natural assemblage, and soon learns to read, with equal 

 facility, those legible characters, written by the finger of 

 God, on the Mosses, Ferns, Grasses, Rushes, Palms, Lilies, 

 Asphodels, Hemlocks, Pinks, Mallozvs, &e. It is well known 

 how congenial the sentiments of Mr. Philip Miller were 

 to my own, on this head ; and how long he held out, before 

 he would exchange the characters of Tournefort, for the 

 more perfect ones of Linnaeus, in his Dictionary, Yet those 

 of Linnaeus, as far as the genus is concerned, are already 

 completely superseded by the characters of Jussieu; and a 

 work relative to species, disposed after the same method, 

 whenever it is published, will as rapidly subvert the Herculean 

 labours of Willdenow. When no mention of a plant has 

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