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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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