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botanical descriptions, classical arrangement, and an index of English 

 names, and an alphabet of plants. This is altogether a work of much 

 merit, and well worthy, even at the present date, of the attention of 

 young foresters. Besides these, we have Cruickshanks' " Practical 

 Planter ?* Monteath's " Foresters' Guide ;"f and also the works of 

 Xichol, Sang, Billington, and various others, in each of which the 

 usual operations of planting, thinning, transplanting, pruning, &c, 

 form the prominent features, together with the treatment of plant- 

 ing waste lands, measurement of timber, and disposal of felled 

 wood, bark, and other forest produce. 



But while most of the works upon arboriculture about this period 

 (1800-1830) were chiefly devoted to the principles that should 

 guide the general operations of planting, one work appeared whose 

 attention was wholly directed to an especial branch in the treatment 

 of trees, namely, the transplanting of large trees for immediate effect. 

 "Ttte Art of creating Landscape Effect" or " of giving immediate effect 

 to wood on scientific principles"} as Sir Henry Steuart styled his 

 " Planters' Guide," is a volume of much merit, of purely classical 

 style and feeling, and contains many useful hints for those who 

 choose to adopt this method of making haste to be rich in ancestral 

 timber trees. He certainly did more than any other man then living 

 to carry out the idea of removing large timber to other sites for effect 

 and utility, whether of ornament or shelter, and he succeeded. His 

 book is an admirable account of his modes of procedure, and worthy 

 the attention of all at the present day who meditate the creation of 

 landscape effect. Sir Henry Steuart's love of trees led him to do 

 much to obtain them for immediate effect, but whether the cost of 

 doing so, compared with the cost of planting young trees in favourable 

 situations among nurses, is surpassed by the process adopted for im- 

 mediate effect, the reader of Sir Henry's book must judge for himself. 

 The old Scotch proverb, that " the cod o'ergangs the profit? may 

 perhaps be found true in this instance, if any ardent enthusiast in 

 treedifting should try the experiment upon an extensive scale. Sir 

 H. Steuart, however, deserves much credit for his indomitable exer- 

 tions in this behalf, and for his having so well achieved what he so 

 laboriously undertook. 



While thus the patient labours of literature and careful observa- 

 tion and study were doing their utmost for arboriculture, the follow- 

 ing table of the dates of introduction of many new species of trees 



* Cruickshank, Thos.— Practical Planter. 8vo, 1830. 



t Monteath, R.— Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter. 2d ed. 8vo, 1824. 



X Steuart, Sir H.— The Planters" Guide. 8vo, 1827 



