The PREFACE.

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My Defign in publishing of this Abridg ment, is not to leffen the Value of the Folio Editions, that being far from my Thoughts; but as the Price of the Folio was too great for many Perfons who are employed in the practical Part of Gardening, I was defired by fome of my Friends to fet about this Work.

To which I was the rather induc'd, as it might prevent an Abridgment from injudicious Hands, by which not only my Interest in the Copy would have fuffer'd; but the Publick would have been impofed on with an inaccurate Performance, publish'd, according to the Practice now fo commonly, tho' bafely, purfu'd, with Intention of sharing the Profits of an Author's Labour, without giving him any Confideration for it.

And, indeed, I foon found that this Apprehenfion was far from being Groundless, and that it was highly proper to haften this Work; for an Advertisement was inferted in the publick Papers, of an Abridgment

being nearly finish'd by other Hands, and would foon be fent to the Prefs.

This determin'd me to press the Work forward as faft as my other Bufinefs would permit; and I humbly hope, my good Friends and kind Favourers, will not be displeafed either with the Attempt or the Performance.

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Gardeners Dictionary.

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BELE Tree. Vide leav'd Firr Tree, with long hang-
Populus.
ing Cones, commonly called, The
ABIES; The Long-con'd Cornish Firr.
Firr Tree.
The Characters of
this Tree are,

It is ever-green; the Leaves are fingle, and for the moft part produced on every Side the Branches: the Male Flowers (or Catkins) are placed at remote Diftances from the Fruit on the fame Tree; the Seeds are produced in Cones, wbich are fquamofe.

The Species of this Tree, which are at present to be found in the English Gardens, are, 1. ABIES; Taxi folio; fructu furfum fpectante. Tourn. The Silver, or Yew-leaved Firr Tree.

2. ABIES; Tenuiori folio; fructu deorfum inflexo. Tourn. The Common Fir or Pitch Tree; fometimes called, The Norway or Spruce Firr.

3. ABIES; Minor; pectinatis foliis; Virginiana; conis parvis fubrotundis. Pluk. Alm. The Virginian Firr Tree, with small roundish Cones.

4. ABIES; Taxi folio; fructu longifmo, deorfum inflexo. The Yew

5. ABIES; Picea foliis brevibus ; conis rninimis. Rand. The Pitchleav'd Firr Tree, with fmall Cones.

6. ABIES; Picea foliis brevioribus; conis parvis, biuncialibus laxis. Rand, The hortest Pitch-leav'd Firr Tree, with loofe Cones.

7. ABIES; Taxi foliis; odora Balfami Gileadenfis. Raii Hift. App. The Balm of Gilead Firr. Vulgo.

8. ABIES; Taxi folio; fructu rotundiore, obtufo. The Yew-leav'd Firr Tree, with round Cones, by fome called,The Balm of Gilead Firr.

The first and fecond Sorts of

Firrs are very common in most Gardens, and Plantations of evergreen Trees; and the fecond Sort is very common in the Woods of Norway, and is the Tree that affords the white Deals.

Thefe Trees were (not many Years fince) much efteemed for Ornaments in ever-green Gardens; but the Leaves and lower Branches decaying and foon falling off, fo as to render the under Par of the B

Tree

B. Cole Sculp..

THE

Gardeners Dictionary:

Containing the METHODS Of
CULTIVATING and IMPROVING

THE

Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden,

AS ALSO THE

Phyfick Garden, Wilderness, Confervatory,

AND

VINEYARD.

Abridg'd from the FOLIO EDITION,
By the AUTHOR, PHILIP MILLER,
Gardener to the Worfhipful Company of Apothecaries, at
their BOTANICK-GARDEN, in Chelfea, and F. R. S.

In Two VOLUMES.

·Digna manet divini gloria ruris.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

VIRG. GEO.

Printed for the AUTHOR, and Sold by C. RIVINGTON,
at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-Yard.

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