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sylviculture to some extent is scarcely to be expected ; but 

 with a little sacrifice on the side of each, and a fair amount 

 of common-sense practice, they can succeed side by side 

 without great difficulty. 



In conclusion, it may be pointed out that this book is 

 not, nor does it make a pretence of being, a text-book. The 

 intelligent reader, therefore, who discovers that it does not 

 contain a Planter's Guide, nor a reference to more than one 

 work on German Forestry, is requested not to despise it on 

 that account, nor to conclude prematurely that the Author 

 has written on a subject he knows nothing about. 



A. C. FORBES. 

 September 1904. 



