6 NEW SYLVA 



Calycanthus, Hamamelis, Crategus, Vibur" 

 nunt &c demand also a new revision. Abies 

 and Aker have been partly corrected in the 

 Lexicon of first part. Salix and Populus cer- 

 tainly require to have subgenera or better sec- 

 tions. 



Much therefore remains to be done to de- 

 tect, describe and name properly all our woody 

 plants. I hope to do something towards it ii» 

 this New Sylva. My reward will probably be 

 as usual a denial of justice and neglect of my 

 species, until they shall be introduced at great 

 cost into the European Nurseries. It is said 

 that a gardener that introduces a new Tree or 

 Shrub in England, often makes a great deal of 

 money by it ; but the learned Botanist who by 

 20 years of travels and exertions detects the lo- 

 cality, sends specimens or seeds, is unreward- 

 ed : nay it is expected that he should give 

 away his specimens and seeds ! If like myself 

 he has discovered 100 or 200 new trees and 

 shrubs, he is expected to give them all away 

 for nothing ! and not believed unless he does ! 



In the name of justice, pray why is a Botan- 

 ist to be denied the privilege of Nurserymen 

 and Sellers of plants ? Michaux was paid for 

 his collections and informations, Bose has been 

 rewarded. Vanderschot was sent from Ger- 

 many on purpose to collect seeds of trees by 

 the Prince of Lichtenstein who has planted for- 

 ests of American trees there. 



If I had been attended to and rewarded I 

 could have introduced into our gardens, nurse- 

 ries, and those of Europe, all my new Grape 

 Vines and Roses, with 100 other fine trees and 

 shrubs discovered by myself between 1802 and 

 1836. If they are yet unknown there or are very 



