Postscript XV 



In Denmark we have also received much help and information from Forest 

 Inspectors Mundt and Bramsen, who personally conducted us through many interest- 

 ing forests and private arboreta. 



In Japan I have on two occasions received unusual attention and assistance in 

 visiting the most interesting forests, and in procuring good photographs of the 

 trees, for which I shall be ever grateful both to the past and present Ministers of 

 Agriculture, and especially to Dr. H. Shirasawa of Tokyo, and numerous other 

 officials and friends. 



Amongst the English landowners, who have afforded us the greatest assistance 

 and kindness on all occasions, I must specially mention His late Majesty King Edward, 

 to whom our work is dedicated, and whose fine trees at Windsor, Sandringham, 

 Balmoral, and Osborne have been frequently mentioned in our pages. The Earl of 

 Ducie, who during a long life has had the pleasure of seeing many rare trees planted 

 by himself come to maturity, and who, perhaps better than any English landowner, 

 has realised the importance of attending to his trees after they were planted. The 

 late Sir Charles Strickland, who often told me that the pleasure of watching the 

 growth of trees which he had himself raised and planted, was the one interest in life 

 which remains undiminished in extreme old age. Sir Hugh Beevor, who has inherited 

 a taste for arboriculture and forestry, and on many occasions has contributed most 

 valuable notes and measurements of remarkable trees in many places. The Dukes 

 of Argyll, Bedford, Northumberland, Portland, Richmond, and Wellington. The 

 Marquesses of Bath, Lansdowne, Ripon, and Waterford. The Earls of Annesley, 

 Bathurst, Bradford, Brownlow, Cawdor, Coventry, Darnley, Fortescue, Ilchester, 

 Leicester, Manvers, Pembroke, Portsmouth, Powis, Radnor, Selborne, Spencer, 

 and Yarborough. The Viscounts Falmouth and Powerscourt. The Lords Bagot, 

 Barrymore, Clinton, Dynevor, Kesteven, Llangattock, Lovat, Methuen, North- 

 bourne, Peckover of Wisbech, Penrhyn, Rayleigh, Redesdale, Sackville, Scarsdale, 

 Sherborne, and Walsingham. Sir C. T. D. Acland, Sir E. Stafford Howard, 

 Sir George Holford, Sir E. Loder, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Sir Frederick Moore, Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg. The Hon. 

 Vicary Gibbs, Mr. H. Clinton Baker, Mr. R. Birkbeck, Mr. F. R. S. Balfour, 

 Brodie of Brodie, Mrs. Baldwyn Childe, Capt. D. Cameron of Lochiel, Major 

 Dent, Mr. W. Steuart Fothringham, Major Lloyd, Col. Malcolm of Poltalloch, 

 Mr. E. R. M. Pratt, Mr. C. Coltman Rogers, Dr. Herbert Watney, and Mr. R. 

 Woodward, Jr. 



For special information respecting the trees of Scotland we are indebted to 

 Mr. John Renwick of Glasgow, and for notes on Irish trees to Mr. R. A. Phillips 

 of Cork and Sir F. W. Moore. 



The conditions which determine the successful cultivation of exotic trees in 

 different parts of Great Britain are so complicated by local variations of soil, 

 climate, and elevation that after many attempts I have failed to construct a map 

 which would divide the country into arboricultural regions. The best guide to 

 the possibility of growing any particular species in any given locality is to know 



