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and a fifth in 1729, with all the lesser pieces of our Author 

 relating to Agriculture and Gardening annexed, as they 

 were in the fourth. But these two last editions are 

 extremely incorrect."* Since then three editions, with 

 copious notes, have been published by Dr. Hunter, of York ; 

 the last in 1801. 



Evelyn's ' Silva ' is worthy of all the encomiums that have 

 been bestowed on it, and there can be no doubt that it has 

 done much to promote a judicious culture of forest 

 trees. In his Epistle Dedicatory to " The King's most 

 sacred Majest}^ Charles the second," the author says: — "I 

 need no.t acquaint your Majesty how many millions of 

 timber-trees, besides infinite others, have been propagated 

 and planted throughout your vast dominions, at the instiga- 

 tion, and by the sole direction of this work ; because your 

 gracious Majesty has been pleased to own it publickly for 

 my encouragement, who, in all that I here pretend to say, 

 deliver only those precepts which your Majesty has put into 

 practice ; as having like another Cyrus, by your own royal 

 example, exceeded all your predecessors in the plantations 

 you have made, beyond, I dare assert it, all the monarchs of 

 this nation since the conquest of it." 



P. 69. BuFFONiA TENUiFOLiA. — It is pretty well established 

 that Smith was wrong as to the intention of Linneus in 

 the application of the name. 



P. 72. Viola lutea. — A hlae variety of this plant is not 

 unfrequent : it is figured in the new edition of ' Sowerby's 

 Botany,' by Dr. Syme. 



P. 77. English Botany. — There can be little doubt that 

 this work is correctly called " Sowerby's" 'EngHsh Botany,' 

 for it was chiefly remarkable for the excellence of its plates, 

 with which it originated ; and Smith was employed to write 



'•= Evelyn's ' bilva,' by A. Hunter, M.D., F.R.S.L. unci E., old ed. 



