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forms a thin volume folio, and appeared in 1730. These are the only 
works of note, which appeared on the subject of trees exclusively, previously 
to the time of Linnzus. 
_ With the exception of nurserymen’s catalogues, and some works on plant- 
ing and managing trees and plantations genefally, nothing exclusively devoted 
to the subject of trees appeared in Britain, till Hanbury published his Essay 
on Planting in 1758: a ponderous folio never in much esteem, and of very 
little interest. Indeed, the only gardening book in England in which trees 
and shrubs were described, and treated of botanically as well as_horticul- 
turally, previously to the commencement of the nineteenth century, was the 
Dictionary of Miller. The Ear] of Haddington, in Scotland, published a Trea- 
tise on Forest Trees, in 12mo, in 1760; but it can only be considered as a work 
descriptive of trees and shrubs generally. In 1771, Meader, gardener to the 
Duke of Northumberland at Syon House, published the Planter’s Guide, 
which is little more than a list of trees, with an imaginary engraving showing 
their comparative heights. A similar list is given at the end of the second 
volume of Morel’s Théorie des Jardins, the second edition of which appeared 
in 1802. In 1772, W. Butcher, a nurseryman at Edinburgh, published a 
Treatise on Forest Trees, already mentioned as a valuable work for the time at 
which it appeared; and, in 1777, Dr. Anderson, under the name of Agricola, 
published Various Thoughts on Planting and Training Timber Trees. Planting 
and Rural Ornament was published by William Marshall in 1796, in 2 vols, 8vo, 
one of which is devoted to the description of trees and shrubs, chiefly, as the 
author acknowledges, taken from Hanbury and Miller. In 1779, Walter 
Nicol published the Practical Planter, and subsequently the Planter’s Calen- 
dar, an edition of which, edited, or rather, rewritten by Mr. Sang, and published 
in 1812, in 1 vol. 8vo, is the last and the best work on trees and shrubs which 
has appeared in Scotland. 
With the first year of the nineteenth century appeared the Planter and Forest- 
Pruner of William Pontey; but this and the other works on planting of that 
author belong to the general subject of culture, rather than to the description 
and history of trees and shrubs. In 1803, Lambert’s Monograph of the genus 
Pinus appeared in one volume folio, price twenty guineas; a second volume 
has since been added; and, in conformity with the spirit of the times, an edition 
has been published in two volumes 8vo, price 12/. 12s. In 1811, Dr. Wade 
of Dublin produced a descriptive work on the’willow, entitled Salices, in one 
volume 8vo ; and, in 1823, Mr. Henry Philips produced, in two volumes 8vo, 
Sylva Florifera, in which the more common, ornamental trees and shrubs are 
treated of in a popular and agreeable manner. Passing over the Woodlands of 
Cobbett, which appeared in 1826, in one volume 8vo, we come to the most 
scientific work exclusively devoted to trees which has hitherto been published 
in England, the Dendrologia Britannica of P. W. Watson, which was completed 
in two volumes 8vo, in 1825. The first volume contains 80 plates, and the 
second 90 plates. The letterpress, with the exception of 72 pages of intro- 
ductory matter, consists solely of technical descriptions of the figures, arranged 
in a tabular form under a given number of heads ; a very effectual mode of 
preventing any point, necessary to be attended to in the description of a plant, 
from escaping the notice of the describer. In this respect, the work is superior 
to some of its contemporaries, in which the descriptions are sometimes rather 
disorderly if complete; and are often incomplete, apparently from want of being 
taken in some fixed and comprehensive order. Mr. Watson was a tradesman 
in Hull, who afterwards retired from business ; and he was one of the principal 
persons who assisted in founding, and afterwards in laying out and managing, 
the Hull Botanic Garden, as stated in the introduction to his Dendrologia, 
p- xii. He died, we believe, in 1827. The only work hitherto published in 
England, which contains a description of all the hardy trees and shrubs in the 
country, in addition to that of all other plants, ligneous and herbaceous, 
described by European botanists, is Don’s edition of Miller’s Dictionary, in four 
volumes 4to, price 14/, 
