TO THE SECOND EDITION. To those who live in the country, or repair to it from our cities and towns for recreation or recruitment of health, we trust this will be an acceptable book, especially if they are unacquainted with Forest-trees. Our aim has been to produce a volume that will convey general and particular information respecting the timber-trees chiefly cultivated in the United Kingdom, to induce further inquiry respecting them, and to impart a new interest to the Woodland. To effect this we have briefly given their history and description, together with their botanical characters, remarks from our best authors on their habits and ornamental properties, on the usual mode of their cultivation, and on the value or utility of their timber. We have also introduced accounts of such remarkable trees as we considered of sufficient note to interest the general reader. It has been objected that a few species, not recognised as Forest-trees, have been included in this work; such as the Hawthorn, Holly, Mountain-Ash, and Wild Cherry. But as these have been likewise admitted into a subsequent work of greater pretensions, the reason there given by its author will be here equally sufficient:—"That though aware of the secondary rank of these trees in point of dimensions, when compared with the greater denizens of the Forest, he felt that the prominent station they occupy in the ornamental and picturesque departments of our native Sylvia, was sufficient to compensate for this defect, and to entitle them to the situation in which they have been placed." That the thirty-two species particularly described may be the more readily identified, and their botanical characters more easily understood, there has been given a well executed wood-cut representation of the usual growth and representation of each tree, and another of the leaves, flowers, and fruit. July 1, 1853.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. | PAGE | 1. | Alder | 41 | 2. | Leaves and Catkins | 43 | 3. | Ash | 47 | 4. | Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit | 51 | 5. | Beech | 55 | 6. | Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit | 59 | 7. | Birch | 63 | 8. | Leaves and Catkins | 65 | 9. | Cedar of Lebanon | 69 | 10. | Foliage, Cone, &c. | 73 | 11. | Chestnut | 77 | 12. | Leaves, Catkins, &c. | 79 | 13. | Elm | 82 | 14. | Leaves and Flowers | 85 | 15. | Hawthorn | 92 | 16. | Leaves, Blossom, and Fruit | 95 | 17. | Hazel | 98 | 18. | Leaves, Catkins, and Nuts | 100 | 19. | Holly | 103 | 20. | Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit | 105 | 21. | Hornbeam | 109 | 22. | Leaves, Catkins, and Fruit | 111 | 23. | Horse-Chestnut | 114 | 24. | Leaves, Flowers, &c. | 117 | 25. | Larch | 122 | 26. | Foliage, Catkins, &c. | 125 | 27. | Lime, or Linden | 132 | 28. | Leaves and Flowers | 135 | 29. | Maple | 139 | 30. | Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds | 141 | 31. | Mountain-Ash | 145 | 32. | Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit | 147 | 33. | Mulberry | 152 | 34. | Leaves and Fruits | 155 | 35. | Oak | 158 | 36. | Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit | 161 | 37. | Oriental Plane | 189 | 38. | Leaves, and Globes of Flowers | 191 | 39. | Occidental Plane | 196 | 40. | Leaves and Flowers | 199 | 41. | Poplar | 201 | 42. | (White) Leaves, Flowers, and Catkins | 203 | 43. | Scotch Fir or Pine | 207 | 44. | Foliage, Catkins, Cones, &c. | 209 | 45. | Silver Fir | 217 | 46. | Foliage and Cones | 219 | 47. | Spruce Fir | 222 | 48. | Foliage and Cones | 225 | 49. | Sycamore | 227 | 50. | Leaves, Flowers, and SamarÆ | 229 | 51. | Walnut | 233 | 52. | Leaves, Catkins, and Nuts | 235 | 53. | Weymouth Pine | 239 | 54. | Foliage, Cones, &c. | 241 | 55. | Whitebeam | 243 | 56. | Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit | 245 | 57. | Wild Black Cherry | 247 | 58. | Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit | 249 | 59. | Wild Service | 253 | 60. | Leaves and Flowers | 255 | 61. | Willow | 257 | 62. | (Crack) Leaves and Catkins of S. fragilis | 263 | 63. | Yew | 269 | 64. | Foliage, Leaves, and Fruit | 271 |
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