That I have frequently inserted divers _Historical_ and other Passages, _apposite_, agreeable to the _Subject_ (abstaining from a number more which I might have added) let it be _remember’d_ that I did not altogether compile this _Work_ for the sake of our ordinary _Rustics_, (meer _Foresters_ and _Wood-men_) but for the more _Ingenious_; the Benefit, and Diversion of _Gentlemen_, and Persons of _Quality_, who often refresh themselves in these agreeable _Toils_ of _Planting_, and the _Garden_: For the rest, I may perhaps in some places have made use of (here and there) a _Word_ not as yet so familiar to every _Reader_; but _none_, that I know of, which are not sufficiently _explained_ by the _Context_ and Discourse. That this may yet be no _prejudice_ to the _meaner Capacities_, let them _read_ for _Ablaqueation_, laying bare the _Roots_. _Amputation_, cutting quite off. _Arborator_, Pruner, or one that has care of the _Trees_. _Avenue_, the principal _Walk_ to the _Front_ of the _House_ or _Seat_. _Bulbs_, round or _Onion-shap’d_ Roots. _Calcine_, burn to Ashes. _Compost_, Dung. _Conservatory_, Green-house to keep _choice Plants_, &c. in. _Contr’espaliere_, a Palisade or _Pole-hedge_. _Coronary_ Garden, _Flower_-Garden. _Culinary_, belonging to the _Kitchin_, _Roots_, _Salading_, &c. _Culture_, Dressing. _Decorticate_, to strip off the _Bark_. _Emuscation_, cleansing it of the _Moss_. _Esculent_, Roots, Salads, &c. fit to eat. _Espalieres_, Wall-fruit Trees. _Exotics_, outlandish, rare and choice. _Fermentation_, working. _Fibrous_, stringy. _Frondation_, stripping of _Leaves_, and _Boughs_. _Heterogeneous_, repugnant. _Homogeneous_, agreeable. _Hyemation_, protection in _Winter_. _Ichnography_, Ground-plot. _Inoculation_, budding. _Insition_, Graffing. _Insolation_, exposing to the _Sun_. _Interlucation_, thinning and disbranching of a Wood. _Irrigation_, Watering. _Laboratory_, Still-house. _Letation_, Dung. _Lixivium_, Lee. _Mural_, belonging to the Wall. _Olitory_, _Acetary_, _Salads_, &c. belonging to the _Kitchin-Garden_. _Palisade_, Pole-hedge. _Parterre_, Flower-Garden, or _Knots_. _Perennial_, continuing all the year. _Quincunx_, Trees set like the _Cinque-point_ of a _Dy_. _Rectifie_, re-distil. _Seminary_, Nursery. _Stercoration_, Dunging. S. S. S. _Stratum super Stratum_, one bed, or layer upon another. _Tonsile_, that which may be shorn, or clip’d. _Topiary_-works, the _clipping_, _cutting_ and _forming_ of _Hedges_, &c. into _Figures_ and Works. _Vernal_, belonging to the _Spring_, &c. The rest are _obvious_. BOOKS Published by the _AUTHOR_ of this _Discourse_ 1. The _French Gard’ner_, III. _Edition_, _Twelves_, with Mr. _Rose_’s Vineyard. 2. _Fumi-fugium_: Or, A _Prophetic Invective_ against the _Smoke_ of _London_. _Quarto._