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OF THE USE 
for no other reafon but becaufe they do not 
know what plants are eatable, and how great 
a plenty there is of them in our countrey, of 
which D. Hiorth in this volume has given 
an account, which the moft illuftrious fenator 
Baron Lowenheilm has tranflated into Swe- 
difh. Many people wonder, why the curious 
enquirers into nature will give themfelves fo 
much trouble about exotic plants ; but they 
do not fufficiently confider, that many kinds 
of grain , many roots, legumes , fruits , fallads , 
and trees in common ufe with us for nou- 
rilhment, houfehold utenfils, cloathing, and 
ornament are originally exotics. Here fol- 
lows a lift of fome, which have lately been 
brought into our countrey from the farther- 
moft parts of Sibiria, that contribute to adorn 
our gardens, and change our ceconomy. 
Larkfpur , monks-hood , adonis , vetch , cow par/-* 
nep , French honey -fluckle , aftragalus , othonna , 
baftard-flaflfron, greater cent or y, colombine , dra- 
cocephalon , fpeedwell , claytonica , flax , hyacinth , 
iilly, lychnis , poppy , cat-mint , yellow -flowered 
fage , hooded willow herb , hyjfop, wild navew , £/. 
John's wort , fow-thiflle , flaw-wort , &c. From 
that diftant countrey we have the robinia's and a 
honey-fluckle 3 that make excellent quick-hedges; 
from 
