mit to the lovers of Gardening, this his Practice in the Culture of Fruit-trees, Indeed, even after some of the sheets were printed off, his idea, of it's bulk had not extended beyond the limits of a pamphlet: he was not aware, that by printing merely from Practice, before he had planned his Treatise in Manuscript, he was liable (as it has now happened) to encrease his Pamphlet to a Volume.
He has only to hope, as general utility was his first motive to both these publications, that he shall not be accused of presumption, if he flatters himself that his labours in both will be equally acceptable.
however entirely written by the author of the following sheets: whose claim has since been, in some measure, asserted, by subjoining to the Title-page of the latter Editions, the name of John Abercrombie, to the more popular one of Mr, Mawe.
