| My object is not to treat of any thing very expensive, | | | | please the palate, and that, to use the common saying, |
| or very curious. There are persons, whose taste | | | | are good to eat: in shrubs and flowers, things that |
| greatly differs from mine in regard to shrubs and | | | | delight the sight, or the smell. |
| flowers; and I by no means pretend to say that mine is | | | | Mere botanical curiosities, as they are called, I never |
| the best. But, I can treat of nothing that I do not | | | | took delight in; If the merit of a plant or a flower is not |
| understand, that is to say, of nothing with regard to | | | | to be discovered without close and somewhat painful |
| which I have not had experience. My study, as to | | | | examination, it has always appeared to me not worth |
| gardening, has always been directed towards things | | | | the looking for. |
| that please the senses: in vegetables, things that | | | | |