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SECT. III. 



DireBions for bringing over Seeds and 

 Plants from diftant Countries. 



Nor ev'ry plant on ev'ry foil will grow ; 



The fallow loves the watry ground, and low ; 



The marines, alders : Nature feems t' ordain 



The rocky clift for the wild afrYs reign ; 



The baleful yeugh to northern blafts affigns ; 



To Ihores the myrtles ; and to mounts the vines (/% 



EVERY part of the world has its peculiar 

 productions ; and in no objects of natural 

 hiltory is the variety more entertaining, than in 

 the vegetable kingdom. The gardens of the 

 curious have already been enriched with many 

 valuable acquifitions from diftant countries ; but 

 many attempts alfo to introduce feveral other 

 plants equally rare, have been unfuccefsfully 

 made, owing to the bad ftate of the feeds or 

 plants when firft procured, or the method of 

 difpofing of them during long voyages, and fuch 

 accidents as the utmoft precaution cannot 

 prevent. The ingenious J. Ellis, F. R. S. has 

 favoured the world with the moft judicious ob- 

 fervations on the p relent fubjecT;, which may 



(/) Nec vero terras ferre omnes omnia poffunt.- 

 Fluminibus falices, craffifque paludibus alni 

 Nafcuntur, fteriles faxofis montibus orni. 

 Littora myrtetis laetifiima : denique apertos 

 Bacchus amat colles 5 aquilonem et frigora taxi, 



Virg. G. IL 109. 



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