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different genera, including the oak, beech, elm, &c., the 

 specific character of the appearance of the trees, and the 

 effect produced under various forms and combinations, 

 from the small clump to the extensive forest; and the 

 effect produced by the growth upon them of such 

 epiphytes as moss, lichens, and ivy, &c. 



If Evelyn's Silva may be spoken of in the terms I have 

 cited, not less entitled to commendation for its interesting 

 style of narration, and facts and phenomena selected for 

 description, is this work by Gilpin, written con amore with 

 manifest spontaniety and personal enjoyment in what he 

 describes, and also in describing it for the delectation of 

 others. Lengthened quotations from it have been given 

 in preceding chapters. 



In Dallas's Sherrif : Offidum Vice Comitum, or the Office 

 and Authority of Sheriffs, is reproduced Reading on Charta 

 de Foresta by Trecherra. But I have failed to discover at 

 what date it was published. 



Other treatises on Forestry appeared at subsequent 

 dates before the close of the century, but most of them 

 known to me bear more directly on the illustration of the 

 treatment of forests and woodlands in recent times, than 

 they do on the illustration of the treatment to which they 

 had been previously subjected. 



It was not in England alone that a change in the 

 treatment of forests was introduced in the beginning of 

 the nineteenth century. In Saxony the advance of forest 

 science led to a new development of forest economy, which, 

 so soon as quiet was secured in France, was adopted there, 

 and has since then been adopted in almost every country 

 on the Continent of Europe, securing simultaneously an 

 amelioration of the condition of the forest woodlands, a 

 natural reproduction of these, and a permanent sustained 

 production of wood, whether as firewood or timber. To 

 the student of the forestry of the past, I would recommend 



