New Improvements of Planting and Gardening; Both Philosophical and Practical. Explaining the Motion of the SAP and Generation of Plants (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NEW IMPROVEMENTS Planting and Gardening, Philofophical and Pradical; Explaining the MOTION of the SAPP Generation o Plants. With other Difcovries never before made Public for the Improvement of Foreft-Trees, Flower- Gardcns, or Parterres; with a New Invention whereby more Defigns of Garden-Platts may be made in an Hour, than can be found in all the Book?now extant. Likewife feveral rare Secrets for the Improvement of Fruit-Trees, Kitchen- Gardens, and Green-Houfe Plants. Adorn'd with Copphr Plates. -Hortus qua Cura Colendi. Ornaret Virg. Geo. PART II. By JC HARD BRADL r Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIEfY. L ON CON- Printed for ff. MERS at the Z./.tb without Timpte-Bar. M DCC XVIII, t ., - .o. ., wn To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Parker, Baron of MacklesfieU in the County Palatine of Cbefler, Lord Chief Ju- flice of England, and one of His Majefty's moft Honourable Privy- Council. My Lord, Our Lordfhip having been pleas'd to think favourable ofmy firft Book upon this Subject, I have prefum'd to Infcribe this A 2 ' PartPart to YOU, not without Belief that the World will be inclined to hope better from me, when they find my Studies influenced by fo Great a Patronage. It is not only from Your Lordfhip's Inclination to the Subject of thefe Papers, of which none can be a better Judge than your Self, that you are not offended with any thing of this kind, but that you know a due Cultivation of thefe innocent Pleafures, will both improve our Un- derftanding, and better our Morals. The Temptations to Vice are always taken offin Proportion to the Employments of thofe Minutes which are by many fpent in Idlenefs; and the vitious and litigious Part of Mankind, whom Your Lordfhip's juft Awards corred, would be much le fened, if...