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fused, will give additional strength to the Society’s 
labors. 
Should, therefore, this small literary offer prove ac- 
ceptable to the supporters of the Victorian Acclima- 
tion Society, then the writer would feel sufficiently 
encouraged to offer, in a similar form, a list of other 
plants, recommendable here for more general cultiva- 
tion ; and, although such indices only to some extent 
contain original research, they are likely to bring to- 
gether information more condensed and more recent 
than would be attainable in costly or voluminous 
works of even several languages, and yet such treat- 
ing, perhaps, of countries with far narrower climatic 
zones than ours. ’ 
Possibly this publication may aid us also to render 
known our colonial requirements thus far abroad, 
while it will offer, likewise, some information to speed 
interchanges, 
For our Industrial Museum and such similar insti- 
tutions as doubtless, ere long, on a limited scale, will 
be connected with each Mechanics’ Institute, this un- 
pretentious treatise may help to explain the real wealth 
which we possess in our unfortunately almost unguard- 
ed forests, or point out the manifold new treasures 
which we should raise independently in our wood- 
lands, while also these pages might stimulate both 
public and private efforts to provide, by timely 
thoughtfulness, those increased timber resources 
without which the next generations of this land can 
be neither hale nor prosperous. 
