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APPENDIX I. 



SPECIMEN OF <l RETURN PAPERS " CIRCULATED IN 1834 AND 1835; IN 

 GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTH AMERICA, IN ENGLISH ; IN FRANCE AND 

 RUSSIA, IN FRENCH; IN ITALY, IN ITALIAN; AND IN GERMANY, DEN- 

 MARK, SWEDEN, ETC., IN GERMAN. 



One large folio sheet contained the Names of all the principal Genera, urith blanks under 

 each proportioned to the number of Ligneous Species which each Genus contains. 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM; 



THE TREES AND SHRUBS THAT ENDURE THE OPEN AIR IN GREAT BRITAIN 



AND IRELAND, 



PICTORIALLY AND BOTANICALLY DELINEATED, AND SCIENTIFICALLY AND POPULARLY DESCRIBED. 



BY J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S., &c. 



THE nature of the Arboretum Britannicum is described in the advertisement on'the last page of this sheet ; 

 and in the Gardener's Magazine for December, 1834. The object of this Return Paper is, to procure Notices 

 of Trees and Shrubs, whether old or young, indigenous or foreign, hardy or half-hardy, of all the kinds men- 

 tioned below, from all parts of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Continent of Europe. 



The Proprietor, Amateur, Nurseryman, Gardener, or Forester, who may receive this Paper, will greatly 

 lerve the cause of Arboriculture, if he will fill up with the names and other particulars of such species of the 

 genera enumerated as may be on his property, within the range of his observation, or under his care The 

 objects are : 1 . To show the different degrees of progress which trees make in different localities and climates, 

 and in different soils and situations ; 2. To record the Arboretums, and also the smaller Collections of Treei 

 and Shrubs that have been made in different places ; and, 3. To notice Specimens remarkable for their bulk, 

 age, beauty, singularity, or peculiarity of form ; or, in the case of very young trees, for their'rapidity of growth. 



It is requested that this sheet, when filled up, may be returned to the undersigned, at Messrs. Longman's, 

 39. Paternoster Row, London, at the earliest convenience of the party to whom it is addressed. 



J. C. LOUDON. 



London, Nov. 1834 ; May, 1835 ; and July, 1835. 



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