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With comparatively few exceptions, the trees and shrubs dealt with here 

 may be grown at Kew, either fully in the open or against walls. 



I have to express my thanks to Sir David Prain, the director of Kew, 

 for permission to borrow books belonging to the Kew library ; also to 

 Messrs Elwes and Henry for the privilege of seeing proof-sheets of the 

 Trees of Great Britain a?id Ireland, and to the editors of the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle for permission to adapt some articles of mine which appeared 

 in that journal a few years ago on transplanting, pruning, and one or two 

 other subjects. To my colleague, Mr W. Dallimore of Kew, I owe a 

 debt of gratitude for assistance in reading the proofs. 



The illustrations in the text have been drawn by Miss E. Goldring 

 from photographs made by Mr E. J. Wallis. For some of the subjects 

 illustrated I am indebted to Sir Frederick W. Moore, of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. 



W. J. B. 



KEW, April 1914. 



PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 



THIS edition is little more than a reprint of the first. The opportunity 

 has been taken to correct such errors as have been discovered, but most 

 of these are of a minor character. The time which has elapsed since the 

 publication of the first edition about fifteen months has been too short 

 to have made many changes or additions necessary. The note on Colletia 

 has been largely re-written and the name Cratagus stipulosa has been 

 altered to C. stipulacea. Also, Olearia Gunniana has been substituted for 

 O. stellulata and Stewartia sinensis for S. monadelpha. 



W. J. B. 



KEW, Feb. 1916 



