vi PREFACE 



R.B.A., and A. Fairfax Muckley, by the photo- 

 micrographs prepared by Messrs. James A. Weale 

 and F. W. Saxby, and by the photographs of speci- 

 men trees taken by the cameras of Messrs. F. Mason 

 Good, H. Irving, and E. J. Wallis. 



We should hear as often of the planting of young 

 trees as we do of the felling of old ones. Too 

 frequently, as we gaze upon some fallen monarch 

 of the glen, do we feel constrained to address it 

 apologetically in the words of a little-known poet : 



" Thou canst not censure more than we, 

 The vandal hand that laid thee low : 

 But any fool can fell a tree , 

 Tho' it takes a God to make one grow 1 " 



G. S. BOULGER. 



