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Excerpt from Oxford Gardens: Based Upon Daubeny's Popular Guide to the Physick Garden of Oxford: With Notes on the Gardens of the Colleges and on the University Park 'Tis State employment: You a book compile That musters all the Natives of this Isle. And forein herbs surpriz'd in English ground Are taken Prisoners and together Bound. The Plants so neatly are describ'd, th' are known Better by these your leaves, than by their own. If men would view their roots too, here they'l see Them in their unstrain'd Etymologie. Here Plants collected are, and publish'd; thus You gather Plants, not for your selves but us. We'd crown your worth with Garlands but the flowrs That we combine, must be your own, not ours. When Garden Plants shall dye, yours most shall thrive And shall preserve, themselves, and you alive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.