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may lead to this delightful fcience, may by a 
little application, from hence be enabled fcien- 
tifically to examine and arrange, not only thofe 
of the fhrubby, but the feveral and various 
fpecies of the herbaceous clafs. The foreigner , 
curious in American collections, will be here- 
by better enabled to make a feledion fui table 
to his own particular fancy. If he wifhes to 
cultivate timber for ceconomical purpofes, he 
is here informed of our valuable Foreft Trees: 
if for adorning his plantation or garden of 
our different ornamental flowering fhrubs, 
The author would have been happy, could 
he have given alfo a defcriptive Catalogue of 
our native herbaceous plants. At prefent, 
circumftances oblige him to confine himfelf 
to Foreft Trees and Shrubs ; however he has 
fuch a work in contemplation fliould this 
meet with the encouragement of the public. 
He is well aware that many improvements 
might have been made, with regard to the 
form and manner of defcription, as well as 
by the addition of Synonyms, Notes of re- 
ference, &c. but, upon reflecting that the ge- 
nerality of his Readers would have been more 
embarraffed and confufed than profited there- 
by, he was determined to ufe the mod plain 
and familiar method and language, in order 
to render the work as generally ufeful as pofTi- 
ble; this being the chief "end and defign of the 
undertaking. 
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