382 Loiidon^s Arboretum ei Fruticeium Britamiicum. 



Art. II. The Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum ; or, the Trees 

 and Shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, 

 pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly 

 described; tvith their Propagation, Cidture, Management, and Uses 

 in the Arts, in useful and ornamental Plantations, and in Landscape- 

 Gardening. Preceded by a historical and geographical Outline of 

 the Trees and Shrubs of temperate Climates throughout the World. 

 By J. C. Loudon, F.L., H.S., &c. 8 vols. 8vo, viz. four of letter- 

 press, and four of plates : consisting of above 3000 pages of 

 letterpress, above 400 8vo plates of trees, and upwards of 2500 

 woodcuts of trees and shrubs, besides numerous diagrams, &c., 

 explanatory of culture and management. London, 1838. 



This work contains portraits from nature, to a scale of a 

 quarter of an inch to a foot, of all the trees which endure the 

 open air in Britain, of the sizes which they attain in ten years in 

 the neighbourhood of London ; with botanical figures in flower, 

 and in fruit or seed, to a scale of 2 inches to a foot. It also 

 contains portraits of full-grown trees to the scale of -~ of an 

 inch to a foot, of at least one species of all the principal genera, 

 drawn from Nature by eminent artists (G. R. Lewis, H. W. 

 Jukes, &c.), from specimens within ten miles of London, &c. 

 Of all the principal shrubs in Britain, it contains engravings of 

 botanical specimens in flower, to a scale of 2 inches to a foot ; 

 and many of the half-hardy shrubs are also illustrated by en- 

 gravings. Among the miscellaneous engravings are numerous 

 views showing the effect of particular species of trees in scenery ; 

 plans and isometrical views of ericacetums, rosariums, American 

 gardens ; trellises, structures for training on, embroidery-work 

 in box, labyrinths in hornbeam, conservative walls, &c. 



The letterpress is in three parts : Part I. contains the history 

 of the introduction of foreign trees and shrubs into Britain, with 

 the history and geography of the trees and shrubs of temperate 

 climates throughout the world. 



Part IL contains : 1. The study of the organisation, physi- 

 ology, physiognomy, and all that may be considered as the 

 botany or natural history of trees ; and 2. The study of what 

 relates to their propagation, culture, uses in the ai'ts, medicine, 

 landscape-gardening, forest-planting, agriculture, &c., or what 

 ma}' be called the economical history of trees. 



Part III. contains the application of the theory laid down in 

 Part IL, in the description, natural history, and economical his- 

 tory of the trees which endure the open air in Britain, taken 

 individually; and this part occupies nine tenths of the letterpress 

 of the entire work. 



An Appendix contains, among other articles, a priced cata- 

 logue of tree and shrub seeds for London ; and catalogues of 

 plants of trees and shrubs, with the retail prices in London, 

 Edinburgh, and Hamburg, and at Bollwyller, in the year 1838. 



