PREFACE. IK 



private emolument ought to give way to the 

 general good. Befides, if individual emolu- 

 ment is really to be thus leffened^ I cannot be 

 fuppofed deftitute of a fellow-feeling on the 

 fubjed: ; my own livelihood, and that of a nu- 

 merous family, depending on the public nurfery 

 bufmefs. 



But, after all, I have very little dread that 

 either my own bufinefs, or that of my neigh* 

 bours, will be hurt by the means alluded to. 

 On the contrary, I am inclined to think, that 

 if numerous private nurferies were eftablifhed, 

 they would tend to make the fpirit for planting 

 become more and more general, greatly to the 

 advantage of thofe concerned in the bufinefs of 

 public nurferies- 



The plan adopted in the following work, as 

 now completed by me, differs but little from 

 that fketched out by the late Mr Nicol, and 

 publifhed at the end of the Gardener's Ka- 

 lendar. 



In the Introduction, I have endeavoured to 

 enforce the momentoufly important dodlrine 

 above hinted at, of laying a foundation for the 

 future fupply of native timber, not only for 

 domeftic and agricultural purpofes, but for the 



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