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However this may be, there is a want of information on the forest 

 and fruit trees. Some excuse may have been made on the ground 

 that a good treatise, one adapted to popular use, was wanting. 

 It is true that information has not been accessible till now. The 

 work of Micheaux is expensive, and never was intended for a 

 work for the people, and has never circulated in this country. 

 Mr, Brown's Silvia Americana we believe has not circulated very 

 extensively, and because a taste for the study of trees has not 

 been cultivated. Loudon's Arboretum Britannicum is also a 

 large expensive work, w^hich is rarely found in this country, ex- 

 cept in public libraries. Mr. Brown's work takes away all ex- 

 cuse for ignorance of our forest and fruit trees. It is a cheap 

 book for the information it contains, and moreover it is well exe- 

 cuted by the Harpers; the form, paper, and other points essential 

 to a good book, are found in this volume. The author has fol- 

 lowed Loudon very closely in his Arhoretum. He has given the 

 natural class to which the species belongs, and the generic and 

 specific distinctions; after which there is a general and popular 

 description of the tree and its varieties, (with the necessary cuts) 

 mode of culture and uses, to which is added its geography and 

 history, and its legendary tales' or history, which is often of an 

 interesting character. The work, aside from its practical value, 

 is entertaining, and is a book which may be read with pleasure by 

 the general student. 



