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PREFACE. 
with their opinions and experience on 
the fubjebt. , 
The Author is not acquainted with any 
publication that treats feparately, and 
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particularly, of thofe flowers that are 
deemed moll worthy of cultivation by 
Florifts; there are, indeed, treatifes on 
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the culture of particular flowers, as of 
the Hyacinth, Auricula, See. fome of 
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which are written in foreign languages, 
and are confequently of but little ufe 
to the Englifh reader; others are to be 
found in our own tongue, by different 
authors ; but their works are either volu¬ 
minous and expenfive, or their informa¬ 
tion inadequate to the end propofed. 
However imperfebl, in point of fcience 
or language, the following work may 
j appear* 
