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science of plant-culture—Dr John Lindley’s Theory and Practice 
of Horticulture. It deals exhaustively with the origin and 
growth of plants, and the various methods of raising, propagat- 
ing, and cultivating them in accordance with the principles and 
teachings of science. A perfect storehouse of clear and concise 
information on the principles of science applied to cultivated 
plants, trees, and shrubs, the book is worthy of the careful study 
of every forester, farmer, and gardener in the country. 
Selby’s History of British Forest Trees was issued in 1842 
—a beautifully illustrated work, giving the history of British 
trees, with their treatment for effect in the landscape, and in 
plantations for commercial purposes. 
In the year 1847 there appeared Zhe Forester, by James 
Brown, which long maintained the position of the leading work 
on British Forestry. It passed through five editions, and three 
years ago it was thoroughly revised and brought up to date 
by Dr Jobn Nesbit, of the India Forest Service, and is much 
appreciated by practical men. 
Nothing else of special importance to forestry appeared in 
the latter half of the forties, but from 1851, the year of the first 
Great International Exhibition held at London, onwards to the 
present time, there has been a steadily increasing flow of forestry 
literature from the British press. At the present rate of 
increase it bids fair to become soon as abundant as the 
forestry literature of France, Germany, and other foreign 
countries, where, from the necessities of their case and the force 
of circumstances, they have been compelled to give earlier and 
closer attention to a system of forestry founded on sound prin- 
ciples. The number of books on British forestry which have 
appeared since 1851 is far too numerous to permit us to review it 
in detail, and a mere list of the principal works and their authors, 
with the years in which they appeared, in chronological order, 
must suffice. 
1851. Coniferous Trees in britaan. Knight & Perry. 
1853. English Forests and Forest Trees. Ingram, Cooke, & Co. 
1856. Trees and their Nature. Dr A. Harvey. 
» Forest Trees of Britain. C. A. Johns. 
1858. The Pinetum. George Gordon. 
1859. British Timber Trees. John Blenkarn, 
1860. Pinetum Britannicum. Peter Lawson & Son. 
