Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets

Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets

T he Favourable Entertainment which the Kalendar has found, encouraging the Bookeller to adventure upon a Ninth Impreion, I could not refue his Requet of my Reviing, and Giving it the bet Improvement I was capable, to an Inexhautible Subject, as it regards a Part of Horticulture; and offer ome little Aid to uch as love a Diverion o Innocent and Laudable. There are thoe of late, who have arrogated, and given the Glorious Title of Compleat and Accomplih'd Gardiners, to what they have Publih'd; as if there were nothing wanting, nothing more remaining, or farther to be expected from the Field; and that Nature had been quite emptied of all her fertile Store: Whilt thoe who thus magnifie their Dicoveries, have after all, penetrated but a very little Way into this Vat, Ample, and as yet, Unknown Territory; Who ee not, that it would till require the Revolution of many Ages; deep, and long Experience, for any Man to Emerge that Perfect, and Accomplih'd Artit Gardiner they boat themelves to be: Nor do I think, Men will ever reach the End, and far extended Limits of the Vegetable [pg] Kingdom, o incomprehenible is the Variety it every Day produces, of the mot Ueful, and Admirable of all the Apectable Works of God; ince almot all we ee, and touch, and tate, and mell, eat and drink, are clad with, and defended (from the Greatet Prince to the Meanet Peaant) is furnihed from that Great and Univeral Plantation, Epitomiz'd in our Gardens, highly worth the Contemplation of the mot Profound Divine, and Deepet Philosopher. I hould be aham'd to acknowledge how little I have advanced, could I find that ever any Mortal Man from Adam, Noah, Solomon, Aritotle, Theophratus, Diocorides, and the ret of Nature's Interpreters, had ever arriv'd to the perfect Knowledge of any one Plant, or Vulgar Weed whatoever: But this perhaps may yet poibly be reerv'd for another State of Things, and a 3longer Day; that is, When Time hall be no more, but Knowledge hall be encreas'd. We have heard of one who tudied and contemplated the Nature of Bees only, for Sixty Years: After which, you will not wonder, that a Peron of my Acquaintance, hould have pent [pg] almot Forty, in Gathering and Amaing Materials for an Hortulan Deign, to o enormous an Heap, as to fill ome Thouand Pages; and yet be comprehended within two, or three Acres of Ground; nay, within the Square of les than One (kilfully Planted and Cultivated) ufficient to furnih, and entertain his Time and Thoughts all his Life long, with a mot Innocent, Agreeable, and Ueful Employment. But you may jutly wonder, and Condemn the Vanity of it too, with that Reproach, This Man began to build, but was not able to finih! This has been the Fate of that Undertaking; and I dare promie, will be of whooever imagines (without the Circumtances of extraordinary Aistance, and no ordinary Expence) to purue the Plan, erect, and finih the Fabrick as it ought to be. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 15517
Author: Evelyn, John
Release Date: Apr 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English