Short introduction to gardening, or, A guide to gentlemen and ladies, in furnishing their gardens, being several useful catalogues of fruits and flowers . THE AVING at length, by my ownunvjearied Application^ and thekind AJJiftance of many Gentlemen^w^ Gardeners, compleated my Col-lection of the various Kinds and differentSorts (9/^ F R u IT s produced in this Kingdom \and havings according to my Propofals^ dif-^ pofed them in monthly Order on twelveCopper-Plates, coloured from theOil-Tain--tings^ after the real Fruits: Now in orderto render this Work //// farther ufefnl^ Itake the l

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Short introduction to gardening, or, A guide to gentlemen and ladies, in furnishing their gardens, being several useful catalogues of fruits and flowers . THE AVING at length, by my ownunvjearied Application^ and thekind AJJiftance of many Gentlemen^w^ Gardeners, compleated my Col-lection of the various Kinds and differentSorts (9/^ F R u IT s produced in this Kingdom \and havings according to my Propofals^ dif-^ pofed them in monthly Order on twelveCopper-Plates, coloured from theOil-Tain--tings^ after the real Fruits: Now in orderto render this Work //// farther ufefnl^ Itake the liberty of prefentmg this lit tle^ my Subscribers; hoping they willaccept it as a Mark of my Gratitude for theirFavours^ and of my fine ere T^efire to renderthe whole T^efigUy as tifeftd and pie afant aspoffible. A 2 It iv 27;^ PREFACE. It contains feveral Catalogues of Fruit^difpofed in fitch a manner as to fhew at oneView all that a curious Enquirer can be de^ fir Otis of knowing. Would he learn what Kinds and Sorts every Month produces ? Thefirft Catalogue fets before him, tinder theName of each Month, all that are then inSeafon^ and informs him whether

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