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in the love of trees, we may mention here " English Forests and 

 Forest Trees," 8vo, 1853, published under the sanction of the Society 

 for Promoting Useful Knowledge. In this hook an historical ac- 

 count is given of all the old English forests, from the times of the 

 Druids, with their traditions, laws, and customs, and with indivi- 

 dual trees described, and their historical associations referred to. 

 " Trees and their Nature," by A. Harvey, M.D., published in 1856, 

 is another valuable and instructive book for the young forester or 

 boyish student of trees. The information, botanical, historical, and 

 physiological, &c, is given in a pleasant, gossiping style, in the form 

 of a series of letters from a father to his sons. " Forest Trees of 

 Britain," by Rev. C. A. Johns, 8vo, and " British Forest Trees," 2 

 vols. 8vo, both issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Know- 

 ledge, are useful and entertaining for the general reader, or for the 

 young forester's fireside of a long winter's evening. 



Amongst the more modern works upon the subject of arbori- 

 culture generally, or upon the details of work of the practical 

 forester, we must refer to three, as being each in its own line emi- 

 nently calculated to meet the special requirements which its pub- 

 lication was intended to supply. These are " The Forester," by J. 

 Brown, LL..D., Stirling, whose practical skill in the Arniston woods 

 enables him to speak with the wisdom of experience upon all the 

 various duties of the forester in their many forms, while his descrip- 

 tions of the various species of trees are accurate and concisely 

 given. A recent edition of this valuable work brings the informa- 

 tion down to the present day, and embraces notices of the more 

 recently introduced Coniferaj in Scotland and England. The second 

 volume, to which we have referred, is " Grigor's Arboriculture," 

 8vo, 1866. This is also an eminently practical work, and is com- 

 piled chiefly from the successful papers which the author had contri- 

 buted from time to time to the Transactions of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society. It is a book well worthy the careful perusal 

 of all foresters, and it might be advantageous to the proprietors of 

 large estates to place a copy in the bothies of their foresters and 

 woodsmen, while its perusal and attentive study will qualify an 

 intelligent young man for almost any department of practical forestry 

 or planting. The third volume alluded to, and the most recent 

 addition to the literature of arboriculture in this country is " Forest 

 Trees for English Climate," by A. Montgredien. This beautiful 

 volume contains a valuable catalogue of the different trees of recent 

 introduction, showing their progress and hardihood in this country, 



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