TO THE 
READER. 
O F all th.e Branches of Natural Know- 
ledge none offers itfelf more readily 
to our View, than that of Vegetables 'y 
' None is attended with lefs Difficulty and 
I Hazard in thePurfuit; None more imme- 
I diately both dhjedly arid indiredly condi;- 
j cive to our Health. 
The beautiful Variety of their Shapes 
and Diyerfity of Colours invite our Eyes^ 
their Fragrancy which raifes our Spirits 
rewards our Curiofity; and on the other 
! Hand even the foetid Ejjlwia of many* of 
them, have their Merit in calming the irre- 
gular Hurry of the Spirits, to which the 
' other Sex is rather more liable than ours. 
I 
They are no momentaneous W anderers, 
leaft durable among them, 
allows 
all, even the 
