This Day is published, 



In Eight Volumes, 8vo, (Four of Letterpress and Four of Plates,) consisting of above 

 3000 Pages of Letterpress, above 400 Octavo Plates of Trees, and upwards of 2500 

 Woodcuts of Trees and Shrubs, besides numerous Diagrams, &c., explanatory of Culture 

 and Management, 



Price 10?., neatly bound in doth and lettered, 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM; 



Or, the Trees and Shrubs of Great Britain, Native and Foreign, pictorially and botanically 

 delineated, and scientifically and popularly described : with their Propagation, Culture, 

 Management, and Uses in the Arts, in Useful and Ornamental Plantations, and in 

 Landscape- Gardening. Preceded by a Historical and Geographical Outline of the 

 Trees and Shrubs of Temperate Climates throughout the World. 



By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.H.S.,&c. 

 Author of the " Encyclopaedia of Gardening," the " Suburban Gardener," &c. 



THIS Work contains portraits from nature, to a scale of a quarter of an inch to a foot, 

 of all the Trees which endure the open air in Britain, of the sizes which they attain in ten 

 years in the neighbourhood of London ; with Botanical Figures in Flower, and in Fruit 

 or Seed, to a scale of two inches to a foot. It also contains Portraits of full-grown Trees, 

 to the scale of ^ of an inch to a foot, of at least one Species of all the principal Genera, 

 drawn from Nature by eminent Artists (G. R. Lewis, H. W. Jukes, &c.), from Specimens 

 within ten miles of London, &c. Of all the principal Shrubs in Britain, it contains 

 Engravings of Botanical Specimens in Flower, to a scale of two inches to a foot ; and 

 many of the Half-Hardy Shrubs are also illustrated by Engravings to the same scale. 



The Letterpress is in Three Parts. Part I. contains the History of the Introduction of 

 Foreign Trees and Shrubs into Britain, with the History and Geography of the Trees and 

 Shrubs of temperate Climates throughout the World. 



Part II. contains: 1. The Study of the Organisation, Physiology, Physiognomy, and 

 all that may be considered as the Botany or Natural History of Trees ; and 2. The Study 

 of what relates to their Propagation, Culture, Uses in the Arts, Medicine, Landscape- 

 Gardening, > Forest- Planting, Agriculture, &c., or what may be called the Economical 

 History of Trees. 



Part III. contains the Application of the Theory laid down in Part II., in the De- 

 scription, Natural History, and Economical History of the Trees which endure the open 

 air in Britain, taken individually; and in this Part all the Species and Varieties are 

 described which are enumerated in the Hortus Lignosus, and most of them are figured. 



" By far the most complete work on the interesting subject of Arboriculture that has hitherto appeared in 



this, or, as far as we know, in any other language Indispensable to every Land Proprietor, Land 



Steward, and Forester, who may wish to lay claim to the appellation of Planter. ... He will find much that 

 is original, combined with all that has been written worthy of perusal, up to the present time, on the subject 

 of arboriculture. ' ' ( Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. ) 



London : Printed for the Author ; and sold by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and 



Longmans. 



