Introduction 



Loudon's Trees and Shrubs; Floricultural 

 Cabinet ; Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum ; 

 Holland's Translation of Pliny's History of the 

 World ; Sargent's Trees of N. America ; 

 Hanbury's Complete Book of Gardening ; 

 Johnson's and other Herbals ; Plant Lore, 

 Legends and Lyrics, by Richard Folkard, Jun. ; 

 Cole's History of Plants ; Strutt's Sylva Brit- 

 annicum ; Allibone's Quotations, etc. Thanks are 

 also due to various nurserymen and others for 

 specimens and information received. 



W. DALLIMORE. 



ARBORETUM, 

 ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 



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