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Sdd^Trf "he' ™*72 “will HfiTgive him an opportunity of anfwering feme few objeflions «ha, have 
been made to the plan of it. . 
The primary deiign of it «hen, is » “ 
StnPmr^TX^ a foundation faid for nnmberlefs improvements 
in Medicine, Agriculture, &c. 
To be enabled» do this, he means «0 take ‘ h ° 8™“^ 
he figures ; to have them drawn from kvmg fpeamens moft Sk of V F P W . alld to be Yry 
partimibn ^rT the SaSSS^Ja’SSfi^SST of\he feveral parts of «he flower and fruit, more efpecially where 
they charafterize the plant. 
And in order that he may obtain a more perfed 1 knagfe 
ftage of its growth, from the germination t0 . ® “ ,^- d te denature of fuch^as are obfeure, or bring into more 
fpecies together ; that he may make experim _ he - s nQW cult ; vat j ng each of them in a garden near 
lay before them whatever may be found ufefu in o attributed to almofl: every plant, purpofely omitted : the 
many of the numerous and imaginary virtues which 1 P £ attend . 
difeoveries made by modem authors particularly relative to. rfgnca^andWcra «*£»>£ great and la, ling 
ed to ; asherefeems to be a field juft opening to L“d for want ^f which, fndeed, the expo? 
rhnentaPforme^ carmo^effe^mllyP^ommunicate his improvements, he finds himfelf peculiarly happy in contribu- 
ting his fhare to the public good. 
He is never, helefs fenfible how SibL^X 
he has fubjoined a catalogue of thofe plants which (with many others) are 
rdready drawn, and which he intends Until form the next Fafciculns. 
He is ferry it has not been in his power to pub, Uh his ^numbers 
chiefly been occafioned by the lofs of one o 1S Fg 1 P , p jJ t0 t h e ft^re of one perfon, being now divided be'- 
eminent ; fo that the drawing -d engraving numL once a month, or J weeks at fa?,hefl-he is how- 
twixt two, he flatters himfelf he ftall be able ' “ 1 P"“T “ ? t he work t0 hurry-on this principle he has been at the 
ever determined never to Sacrifice the . y . _ 7 three times over before he could ventureto publilh them, 
expence of having feme of his P kt “. E T„mT he'ho’pes none of his fubferibers that have hitherto fo generoufly contri- 
As the delay has orig^tedfrom tofo that affiftailce , which alone can enable him to profecute 
kwith°afentTge ry to S the public, credit’» himfelf, and fatisfaffion to them. 
It now Ya to% t L 0 Atthm°“hat e U “f^nftead of pmfuing the prefect ’plan, he 
under the aufpices of the King. but ‘forh a nartial nublicafion tvould have been to the making a knowledge of the 
tmprejudiced perfon, how inadequate f 0 ^-f el ves— -at bell fuch a work could only anfwer the purpofe of thofe 
plan? of Y YFamTn loffeffion of that part of the Flora Dauca already publifhed ; and as that is ft, 11 going on, 
thVfa^fan» would l ^TfIuDu^ 
oftSe fame pH»,. 
A noti»; reafon why ^ ^^o^oold not pkin7only7m7^ E ^ us imTcraunt^f fSir 6 properries^ nm^tea^Ts^us 
the plants of their natural fize, feveral g M other obiedions might be urged without any view to de- 
& complex, “ fome refpeds as could be wilhed, has exceeding great merit :_but 
thefe will probably be deemed Sufficient. The 
