230 LITERATURE OF SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURE. 



affect Forest Trees,* arresting public attention, and directing foresters 

 and others interested in tree growth to the correctness or fallacy of 

 their special views. 



Again, we have " the pine mania," as it has been called, affecting 

 enthusiastic tree growers, for whose special benefit, volume after 

 volume and paper after paper upon the Coniferse issue from the press. 

 These have chiefly been printed since 1850. Thus we have the able 

 standard work upon Conifers by Gordon,t with its valuable and 

 indispensable supplement, % giving the synonymous names of the dif- 

 ferent pines of more recent introduction, with botanical nomenclature 

 and descriptions, and other interesting details as to their hardihood, 

 habitats, &c. Messrs Xoble and Standish add another useful and 

 valuable little handbook of these newer members of the flora of our 

 ornamental woods, in their treatise on Evergreen Trees and Shrubs; 

 while it is impossible to overlook the great undertaking of the late 

 firm of Messrs Lawson in their truly magnificent fragment, viz., 

 " Pinetum Britannicum," published in upwards of 30 parts hitherto, 

 and the continuation and completion of which it is to be sincerely 

 hoped is only delayed, not abandoned. Of the more recent intro- 

 duction of the Japanese pines, we find in 1863 our esteemed fellow- 

 labourer in the cause of arboriculture, Mr Andrew Murray, contri- 

 buting his quota to the literature of the science in his " Firs of 

 Japan," a useful and instructive guide to those planters who may be 

 adding these newer varieties to their pineta. Xor would it be right 

 to omit to mention here without a passing tribute of esteem the 

 labours and writings of Mr Fortune, the pioneer of discovery and 

 conquest from the Chinese and Japanese flora; for he has indivi- 

 dually done more to enrich our gardens and pleasure grounds with 

 treasures from the distant East, as well as from other remote climes, 

 than any other man living ; and while thus actively engaged in 

 adding to the store of material wealth of our collections, his pen has 

 been no less able and successful in giving us clear and interesting 

 descriptions of the countries whence his captives were brought, and 

 histories of the treatment and uses of these plants in their native 

 habitats, uf the highest value to us in their acclimatisation in this 

 country. 



Grouped together as interesting and instructive volumes for the 

 training up of youthful minds to a right appreciation of and interest 



* Kollar on Insects which affect Forest Trees. Fcp. 8vo, 1840. 



t The Pinetum, Gordon and Glendinning. 8vo, 1858. 



J Supplement to The Pinetum, Gordon and Glendinning. 8vo, 1862. 



