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circumstance that no copies of them have been found by me 

 in any of the public libraries which I have searched, and 

 these comprise most of the important public libraries in 

 Scotland, I conclude that they did not exercise any very 

 important influence on the arboriculture of the country. 

 But in the latter half of the eighteenth century there 

 appeared several volumes treating of measures calculated 

 to secure an improved culture of trees, and some of them 

 have a special reference to the Crown forests. 



The Rev. William Watkins, a curate in Brecknock- 

 shire, published in 1753 a sensible pamphlet, entitled " A 

 Treatise on Forest Trees," in which he shows that estates 

 might be improved to a great extent by. attention being 

 given to the culture of trees.* 



I have met with reference to a treatise on the 

 management of forests and timber, entitled Anleitung zum 

 Forst- Wesen, by John Andrew Crammer, said to have been 

 published in 1766. But I have failed to get sight of the 

 work, either in the English or the German language. 



In 1791, well-nigh forty years later, there was published by 

 the Rev. William Gilpin, Prebendary of Salisbury, a work 

 entitled " Remarks on the Forest Scenery and other Wood- 

 land Views,'' relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, illus- 

 trated by the scenes of the New Forest in Hampshire, in 

 which, along with interesting notices of the different kinds 

 of trees there cultivated, and of remarkable trees of one 

 and another of the kinds described, and also of the game 

 and game laws of the forest, there are given descriptions 

 and representations of the sprays and ramification of 



* In Scotland, about the same time, attention was given to the subject, and the results 

 were published, both by land-holders and nurserymen, and the treatises of the Earl of 

 Haddington and of William Boucher were welcomed in England, I do not doubt ; but 

 the publication of these throw only an indirect light on the interest taken in the subject 

 in the south. Boucher called special attention to the neglect of attention to aesthetic 

 effects in the laying-out of plantations. Lord Haddington's work and observations are 

 still cited with commendation by writers on Forest Science on the Continent. 



