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and tho* this may not wholly filence any 

 diftruft, it flops a long while the oppofition 

 of inferiors, to their opinions. And here- 

 to I was the more enflaved, as Mr. Evelyn 

 not confining himfelf wholly to his didtates, 

 fell upon arguments of different kinds, that, 

 if poffible, fome one might hold good ; 

 but deducible all the while out of general 

 maxims of his own, and rules of pruning : 

 Whereupon he goes on and fays " Nothing 

 can be more neceffary in order to prun- 

 " ing, than the knowledge and nature of 

 *^ the courfe of the fap, which not being 

 univerfally agreed on, does lead our ar- 

 borators into many errors and miftakes 

 But how promiffory foever, this declaration 

 feemed, of his going about to inftrud: them 

 right, he prefently after fhifts off his readers 

 to be better informed by our Dr. Grew^ Mai- 

 pighius^ and Monlieur de la ^intifiye. And 

 I only blame him that he did not add 3 but 

 you will at laft find they can tell you Uttle 

 more of this difficult matter than I can my 

 felf. Which at the expence and lofs of 

 time, upon my looking into their works, I 

 found true. 



Being 



