126 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
exclusively with Forestry, but so far they have not met with the 
needful support from the owners of woodlands, foresters, and 
others who are directly interested, to command the success which 
their efforts merited. Twenty years ago, in 1877, the Journal of 
Forestry was established by J. & W. Rider, of London, amid con- 
siderable enthusiasm in the ranks of the profession, and promised 
well for a time that it had come to stay. After a stout fight to 
maintain itself, and its removal from London to Edinburgh, to 
be published in the centre of Scottish Forestry, it too had to 
succumb, in 1886, for want of support, like all other periodicals 
which have tried to occupy the field and supply British foresters 
with up-to-date literature and the newest information about their 
profession. No attempt has since been made to establish a 
forestry periodical, although the need for it is evident to everyone 
who has given a thought to the subject. 
Turning from the periodical literature to the books on forestry 
and cognate subjects which have appeared within the past sixty 
years, we find that one of the most important works on trees and 
shrubs in the language—J. C. Loudon’s Arboretum et Fruticetum 
Britannicum, or “The Trees and Shrubs of Britain ”—was first 
issued in May 1838, less than two years after Her Majesty 
ascended the throne. Its appearance marked a great step in 
advance of all that had gone before, and supplied arborists with a 
valuable compendium of the history, characteristics, cultivation, 
and uses of all the trees and shrubs then grown in the open air in 
Britain. The comprehensive nature of this standard work may 
be judged from the fact that the letterpress, with about 2600 
small engravings illustrative of the text, occupies 2700 closely 
printed pages, forming four large octavo volumes, with four other 
volumes of plates illustrating the habits and peculiarities of 
typical trees. The second and last edition of this splendid work 
was issued in 1844, and, so far as was then known about trees and 
shrubs, it has not been improved upon to this day. 
In 1842 an abridgment of the Arboretum et Fruticetum 
Britannicum was published by Mr Loudon, under the title of 
“Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs,” which has passed through 
several editions, and is still a popular book with arborists, as it 
gives the gist of the standard work at about one-fourth of the 
price. The text is freely illustrated with woodcuts, and it forms 
a large octavo volume of about 1240 pages. 
At this period appeared another highly important work on the 
