PREFACE, 
The preface to this volume may be written in a 
few words. It contains the results of the compre- 
hensive and scholarly study of Australia’s great 
botanist, BARON FERDINAND VON MUELLER. It is 
invaluable as a work of reference to those who are 
about entering upon, and to those already engaged 
in the Cultivation of Forest Trees, and especially to 
those interested in ARBORICULTURE in CALIFORNIA; 
since the climate and other conditions influencing 
the growth of vegetation in the two countries are 
the same, 
ELLWOOD COOPER, 
