X ADVERTISEMENT. 



lie cannot rule out the claims of the public 

 to knoAV something of the man who presumes 

 to offer rules for its guidance. He would 

 briefly state that, reared from infancy amongst 

 extensive collections of trees, they became by 

 circumstances as well as by taste the study 

 and the hobby of his riper years. These 

 advantages, together with a two years study 

 of trees in the celebrated gardens at Kew, 

 with the subsequent practice of his know 

 ledge in many superior establishments, 

 amongst which he would here enumerate 

 Eosedale, the nursery of Eobert Buist; Bart- 

 ram Botanic Gardens, now the property of A. 

 M. Eastwick, Esq., and Springbrook, the 

 country-seat of Caleb Cope, Esq., are, as he 

 trusts, sufficient to induce him to appear with 

 out presumption before the public in an 

 author s capacity. 



He would here farther return his thanks 

 to his numerous friends for their kind assist 

 ance. Particularly to Dr. William Darling- 



