PREFACE. 



tN the preliminary 

 chapter' The 

 blossoming of 

 Autumn' t h e 

 Author has fully 

 explained the ob- 

 ject and scope of 

 this volume. In 

 putting it forth as 

 what he believes to 

 be the first attempt 

 ever made in Eng- 

 land to reproduce in facsimile if that expression 

 may be allowed not merely the exquisite tinting 

 but the forms and venation of the most prominent 

 and conspicuous of the leaves whose dying splen- 

 dour lights up with so much of brilliancy and 

 beauty our autumnal hedges and woodlands, the 

 Author desires to say that the work is the out- 



