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CONTENTS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Uses of Trees, 1. Ornaments, 2. Interchange of Trees, 3. Arrangement of the 
Work, 4. 
PART I. 
GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE TREES 
AND SHRUBS OF TEMPERATE CLIMATES. 
Cuap. I. Sussect. 2. Of the Foreign Trees 
Of the Knowledge of Trees and Shrubs 
which existed among the Nations of 
Antiquity, 15. 
Sacred Trees, 15. Trees of the Egyptians and 
Persians, 16. Enumeration of the Species of 
Trees indigenous to Greece as given by Theo- 
phrastus, 17. Trees of the Romans, 19. 
Cuap. II. 
Of the History and Geography of the 
Trees and Shrubs now in the British 
Islands, 20. 
Sect. I. Of the Native Trees and 
Shrubs of the British Islands, 20. 
Trees found by Cesar, 20. Trees, the indige- 
nousness of which is considered doubtful, 21. 
Beech, Sweet Chestnut, English Elm, &c., 22. 
The Box, 25. Trees known to our Saxon 
Ancestors, 26. Enumeration of the Species 
and Varieties of Ligneous Plants included in 
the British Flora, from Smith ang Hooker, 
27. Classification of the Ligneous British 
Flora, according to height, habit, and popu- 
lar character, 30. 
Secor. II. Of the Foreign Trees and 
Shrubs introduced into the British 
Isles, 31. 
Sussect. 1. Of the Foreign Trees 
and Shrubs introduced into 
Britain by the Romans, and 
during the Middle Ages, till the 
end of the 15th Century, 32. 
Trees and Shrubs introduced by the Romans 
32.; by the Occupiers of Monasteries and 
other religious Houses, and by the Cru- 
saders, 33. Introduction of the cultivated 
Rose, 33. York and Lancaster Rose, 34. 
Foreign Trees and Shrubs of Scotland 
and Ireland, 34. 
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and Shrubs introduced into 
Britain in the 16th Century, 35. 
Trees and Shrubs introduced in the time of 
Henry VIII., 35.  Fitzherbert, Turner, 
Goodge, L’Obel, Grindal, Hampden, Ge- 
rard, &c., 35. Trees and Shrubs in the 
Earl of Essex’s Garden at Barn Elms, 36. 
Corbett’s Nursery at Twickenham, 36. 
Raleigh’s Park in Dorsetshire, 36. Enume- 
ration of the Species of Trees and Shrubs 
introduced into England during the 16th 
Century, by Hugh Morgan, Gray, L’Obel, 
Grindal, Gerard, &c., 36. 39. 
Sussecr. 3. Of the Foreign Trees 
and Shrubs introduced into Bri- 
tain in the 17th Century, 40. 
Tradescant’s Garden at Lambeth, Bishop 
Compton’s Garden at Fulham, 41. Ray’s 
Historia Plantarum, 41. Dr. Mitchel, Sir 
Wm. Watson, Mr. Bentick, Dr. Plukenet, 
Sir Hans Sloane, Furber of Kensington, 
Gray of Fulham, &c., 41. Enumeration of 
Species of Foreign Trees and Shrubs found 
in the Episcopal Garden at Fulham in 1751, 
42.; in 1793, and again in 1809, by Lyson, 
43.; in 1835, 44. Banister, Evelyn, Her- 
mann, Gibson, Sir Stephen Fox, London 
and Wise, Cooke, Lukar, London and 
Field, Dr. Uvedale, Miller, &c., 42. 46. 
Enumeration of the Trees and Shrubs in- 
troduced into England during the 17th Cen- 
tury, according to the Hortus Kewensis, 49. 
Harefield Park, 52. Edinburgh Botanic 
Garden, Oxford Botanic Garden, 53. 
Sussecr. 4. Of the Foreign Trees 
and Shrubs introduced into 
Britain during the 18th Cen- 
tury, 54. 
Trees and Shrubs introduced at Whitton, 
Goodwood, Syon, &e., 54. Miller, Bradley, 
Switzer, Linneus, Peter Collinson, the 
London Nurserymen, &c., 54. Ridgway 
House Garden, 54. London Gardens in 
1712, 55. Lord Petre’s Collection, 55. 
