Patron of every Thing which tends to the Advantage or Improvement of Your Country; and it is no small Happiness

, that after great - Expence and Study, I have an Opportunity of presenting a Gentleman of Your polite Taste with some new Discoveries, which will gain Time in raising Plantations, and fill our Gardens with Fruit at every Season of the Year; which, I hope, will afford You fome Amusement in Your leisure Minutes, especially since Your Genius has led You to purchase one of the finest Collections of Plants in the Kingdom.

This, Sir, is Engagement enough for me to offer the following Sheets to Your Perusal, and that I the Honour of declaring to the World, that I am, with the greatest Respect,

may have

SIR,

Your most obedient

bumble Servant,

R. Bradley

Oncerning the native Places of the se-

veral Tribes of Fruit-trees : With

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an Etymological Account of their

Names, and of the Latitudes of the

Countries which each kind of Fruit

was brought from: With Direčtions for ripen-

ing of Winter Fruits; and of the Culture of

Fig-trees,

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Of the Cherry, its Names, &c.

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of the Peach and Nectarine,

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of the Almond,

ibid.

Of the Plum-tree and Abricot,

of the Pome Granade or Pomgranaté,

Of the Citron, and Lemon,

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of the Quince,

ibid.

of the Pear,

Of the Vine,

17

18

21

22

Of the Fig,

23

The Description and Culture of the best sorts of

Figs, by John Merlet Efq;

28

CH A P. I.

of Vines, their Culture and Management, accord-

ing to the Practice of the greatest Virtuoso's in

France: With the Names and Descriptions of

all the best kinds of Grapes,

34

Concerning the Improvement of old decayed Vines

in a Letter to a Gentleman in Hampshire, 47

Observations concerning Vineyards and their Pro-

duce, with some Account of the Vineyard near

Bath,

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69

C H A P.

II.

Of Pears;.a Catalogue of the best forts, with their

Description, Culture and time of Ripening ; with

curious Observationstrelating to their Names and

Qualities,

59

July

Pears, &c.

61

August Pears, &c.

64

September Pears,

O&tober Pears,

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Pear's good in November,

77

December Pears,

82

Pears good in January,

86

Pears.good in February,

88

Pears good in March and April,

90

Concerning.a Pear-tree that bears Fruit twice a

Year, at Mr. Chapman's, a curious Nursery

Man, near Pitfield-street, Haxton, 93

CHA P. III.

Of Plums; a Catalogue of the best forts, with their

Descriptions, and some useful Particulars relat-

ing to them,

97

CHAP.

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