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ii got a rare flower or hrub, views with pleasure & attention its gradual advances in growth, & how it unfolds its beautiful foliages, & the caes of its flowers, till at length they arrive at the full blaze of their perfect tate.

as far as my memory will erve me

tetimony of my respect to the memory of this incomparable person.

I have waited for this life to be done, as it deerves; & have not been overhaty, in printing, what was wrote 27 years ago.

there is this ue in it likewie. for whilt we see how a great genius will early break out, & dawn, agtagainst [sic] any obtacle; will how in miniature, what its ripening talents will adorn: o to a les pregnant one, uch objects may be preented, & such meaures taken, as will inenibly lead them to very coniderable heights; when done with proper art, & judgment; by thoe that have the care of the education of youth. human nrenature [sic] like a plant mut have the vital principle in its self: but it requires watering & proper culture to bring it to its detin'd perfection. So a botanist that has got a rare flower or hrub, views with pleasure & attention its gradual advances in growth, & how it unfolds its beautiful foliages, & the caes of its flowers, till at length they arrive at the full blaze of their perfect tate.