London. 2ig> 



Gardener and his most important work, the 

 Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum,* the 

 latter in eight octavo volumes. It was, per- 

 haps, next to the Magazine just noticed, and 

 the Encyclopedia of the same author, the most 

 capable and successful attempt to diffuse a 

 general knowledge of all the new species and 

 varieties of forest and fruit trees, plants, and 

 shrubs, imported from foreign countries both 

 by professional growers and by private enter- 

 prise. The magazine had doubtless proved of 

 the greatest utility to the author in the way of 

 preparation and learning. 



Loudon pays an appropriate tribute to the 

 warm and steady encouragement afforded by 

 the Northumberland family to this interesting 

 cause, and he mentions, as his main object 

 in undertaking the labour, on the one hand, 

 the slow progress made by this country in 

 availing itself of new discoveries, and, on 

 the other, the tendency of existing kinds to 

 disappear from neglect. 



* Published in 1822, reprinted in 1824, rewritten 

 in 1831, and republished, edited by Mrs. London,, 

 in 1850. 



