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McNAB—PLANTING OF HARDY EVERGREENS. 349 
Ulex europzeus strictus - - Upright Irish Whin. 
Viburnum strictum - - Upright Laurestine. 
idum - - - Shining 
Yucca gloriosa - - - labios Yucca, or Adam’s 
eedle. 
I may insert here the following “ Recommendatory Notices” 
of this treatise which the publishers had culled from contemporary 
sources and inserted on the cover of McNab’s other treatise on 
“Cape Heaths,” of which a transcript follows. They are germane 
to this account of William McNab in expressing the esteem in 
which he was held in his time :-— 
Recommendatory Notices. 
“This is a cele meritorious production.”—Eadinburgh Literary 
ee Shehees ber 
worth of the author.”— ora Journal fA griculture. 
“This little treatise is, we do believe, an escelvnd compend of 
really useful information. tek recommend it very strongly for 
garden, or to plant asieacive ‘salicy grounds and preserves.”"— 
esti Advertise 
: Aas are quite assured, i that this publication = be read 
uch interest when it is known that it ra s etailed 
sieotnt “of Mr. McNab’s practice, Lae is founded o vec om 
sense principles, and that s beyond the ” pokuibillty of 
every cultivator is both much more easy, and far less expensive, 
than the system of Se commonly recommended and 
followed.” —Edinbu urgh Cou 
“Mr. McNab is an astiduons peel and a clear-headed thinker. 
His work contains much truly novel aetna delivered with 
such a book asa practical gardener ah to write. _ We tie that 
not a bet 
cover for game than your laurel, and we know no int eactiial 
and appropriate serena “3 a dwelling-house than luxuriant clumps 
of evergreens.” a sane’: _— 
very man hing of the Botanical Garden at 
Edinburgh has a a8 Mr. “McNab its excellent superintendent. 
€ stands, we believe, at the very head of practical botanists. In 
Many respects the — is interesting, though, thitherto, it would 
