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Show Introduion to the Kalendar. IntroduGion to the Kalendar. All which duly weigh'd, how precious the time is, how precipitous the Occafion, how many things to be done in their juft Seafon, and how intolerable a confufion willfucceedthefuealleft negle&, after once aGroundis inorder, we thought wefhould not attempt an unacceptable Work, if here we endeavour to prefent our Gard'ners with acom- pleat Cycle of what is requifite to be done throughout every Moneth of * theYear: Wefay, each Moneths becaufe by dividing it into Parts fo distin, the Order in which they fhall find each particular to be ‘difpos'd, may not only render the work more facile and delightful5 but redeemit from that extreamperplexity, which for want of aconStant anduniform Method, we find does fo univerfally diftrad the Oyj 1 car"! oulear fort of Them : They kuow not (for the moft part) the Seamnt ne quid fons when things are to be done* 5 and whenat any time they come to ¢yc, Columel, j 41.C. 4+ know, there often falls out fo many things ¥0 be done onthe fudden, that fome of them muft of neceffity be neglected for that whole Year, which is the greatef? detriment to this Myltery, and frequently irrecoverable. We areyet far from impofing (by any thing we have here alledg'd concerning thefe Menftrual Periods) thofe nice avd hypercritical Puntillos which fome Aftrologers, and fich as purfue their Rules, feem to oblige our Gard’ners 103 as if, forfooth, all were loft, and our pains to no purpofe, unlefs the Sowing and the Planting, the Cutting and the Praning, were perform'd in fuch and fuch an ex- a minute of the In hac autem Ruris difciplina non defi- deratur ejufmodi fcrupulofitas. There are indeedfome certain Seapora, which the prudent Gard’ ner ought careas inhimlies) toprevent: But asto the reft, let it diligently follow the Obfervations which (by great e havecollected together, and here prefent hin, as fo i‘) Tables calculatedfor his Monethly ufé, to the end it nothing which is under bis \nfpeAion, and is ne- , or difiradt bis Thoughts awd Employment before the SeaIs reguire 7. the pas Orcha i:rd and the Parterre, will Sratifi g e the moft inn vnocent of the regn eae elfe (hall be to feck a rare-and univerfal choice Touching the Method, itis fo obvious, that there ne direcfion 5 and the Conleees willprove fo certai n ToL of the bufielt pains és by this little tnftrument rendre d the most facile and agreeable, as by which youShall coutinually preferveyour Gardenin that perfection of beauty and lultre, without confafionor prejudice : Nor indeed could we think of amore compre pedient, whereby to affzit the frail and torpent Memo henfive Exry through fo multifarious and numerous an Employment (the daily fubje& of a Gard’ners care) than by the Oeconomyand Difcip have here confign'd it to, and which our Indoftrious line which we Gard’n bimfelfbe continually (mprovingfrom his own Obfervations er ma and ries perience. Inthe meantime, we have at the inftance of very wean Perfons, who have beenpleas'd to acknowledgethe effects ofa fle lefs perfec Lmpreflion, thoughtcood to publifb this third Editio n in a Jaaller Volume, that as az Enchiridion it may be the more read. and ufeful , but the Kalendar mightbe confiderably augme nted we recomend it felf to more Univerfal ufe, by taking in the Monet ly Employments of all the parts of Agriculture, as they have hbeen begun to us in Columella, Palladius, de Serres, Auguf tino Gallo, Vincenzo Tanara, Herrera, ovr Tuffer, Markham and g Col. de Re Re efpecially if well and judicioully applied to the Climate and aos Pal it Countries + butit were here befides our Inftitution, nor would the Pages contain them; what is yet found vacant bas been urpofel Ti y left, that our Gardner maySupply as hefinds caufe ; for which reafon likewife we have rang'd both the Fruits and Flowers iz Prime after Somewhat a promifcuous Order, and not after the Letters ofthe Alen » that the Method might be purfu'd with the leaft diforder Lajtly, he Fruits and Flowers i# Prime are to be as well confidered ; relation to their lafting and continuance, # to their maturit beauty. and ae And now, however This may feent but a Trifle to fome who eftecm Books by the bulk, enjit mot the benefits let them forbear get to defpile a ages: For sever was any thing of this pretence ingeruoufly imparted 5 I fhall not fay to the regret of nary a’ners becaufe Ihave much obligation to fore ! M4. Rote, Gard’ner to His Majelty, and lateto Her Grace the Duchefs of Somerfet 5 and M. ly of Wimbleton in Surrey who being certainly asot expert of their Profeflion iz England, are xo lefs brated Jor ther free communications to the Publick, by di- rs Obfe rvations of theirs, which have furmifh'd to this Defign. ind itis fromthe Ketale of very much| xperience, 4d an extraor- J. E. He Reader may pleafe to take wotice, that there is new! printed a Second Edition ofthe French Gard'ner, and M.Rofe's aineyard. Sold by John Crook in Duck-lane, and other Book-félers. Ginary inclination to che rifh Jo innocent and laudable a Diverfion, andtoincite an Afiection ia the Noblefs of this Nation towards if, that I begin to open to the 4JO many of the interior Secrets.and mofi precious Rules of this Mytterious Art) without Impofture, or ine idious Referve, The very Catalogue of Fruits avd Flowers, for the f Kalesdarinus |