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TREATISE

OF

HUSBANDRY and GARDENING;
Containing a New

SYSTEM of VEGETATION:

Illuftrated with many

OBSERVATIONS and EXPERIMENTS.
In Two VOLUMES.
Formerly publish'd Monthly, and now metho-
diz'd and digefted under proper HEADS, with
ADDITIONS and great ALTERATIONS.

In FOUR PARTS.

Part I. Concerning the Im- | Part III. Of the Management
provement of Land, by fer-
tilizing bad Soils. Of stock-
ing, of Farms with Cattle,
Poultry, Fish, Bees, Graffes,
Grain, Cyder, &c.
Part II. Inftructions to a Gar-

dener, wherein is demon-
ftrated the Circulation of
Sap, the Generation of
Plants, the Nature of Soil,
Air and Situation. Of the
Profits arifing from plant-
ing and raifing Timber.

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of Fruit Trees, with par-
ticular Obfervations relat-
ing to Graffing, Inarching
and Inoculating.
Part IV. Remarks on the Dif-
pofition of Gardens in ge-
neral. Of the Method of
managing Exotick Plants
and Flowers, and natura-
lizing them to our Cli-
mate; with an Account
of Stoves, and artificial
Heats.

Adorn'd with CUTS.

By R. BRADLEY, Profeffor of Botany in the
Univerfity of Cambridge, and F. R. S.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for T. WOODWARD, at the Half-Moon over
against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetftreet, and
J. PEELE at Locke's Head in Pater-nofter Row.
M DCC XXVI.

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The Right Honourable the
Lord CARTERET,

One of His MAJESTY'S
Principal Secretaries of

State.

MY LORD,

HE favourable Reception which fome of my former Works

have met with, and the Encouragement I have had to

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purfue my Studies in the useful Parts of natural History, has prompted me to undertake the Task which I now venture to lay before your Lordship.

The Improvement of Land, and the Study of Agriculture, have greatly contributed to render our Nation famous above all other Countries; but whether that is owing more to the natural Industry of our People in general, or to the good Reafoning of particular Perfons, is doubtful: If it proceeds from the former, there is room enough to hope for its Advancement by the latter; or if this useful Art

has

has made its Way thus far by the Labours of Experimental Philofophers, 'tis Encouragement enough for them to continue thofe Studies, fince we neither want People nor Industry to bring their Defigns into Practice.

But as every Art, however extensive or useful, demands the Protection of the Great, to make it circulate in the Minds of the Publick, fo I am confident there is no furer Way of recommending these Papers to the World, than by introducing them under the Patronage of your Lordship, whofe extenfive Genius, wife Conduct, and Love for his Country,

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