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PREFACE. 
r jpHE following Treatife was under¬ 
taken by the Author at the particular 
requeft of many refpeftable Florifts, who 
have fuffered repeated Ioffes, and have 
been difcouraged in their favourite pur- 
fuit of cultivating the finer flowers; as 
well as of others, who have been deterred 
from entering with fpirit into this moft 
rational and pleafing amufement, for 
want of a fuitable guide, or direflor, to 
inftru6t them in the rudiments of the 
art; pointing out, on the one hand* 
the moft approved methods of culture 
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