562 Arboretum Rritannicum. 



remedy this defect, by exhibiting living specimens ; and our 

 Arboretum Britannicum will, we trust, aid in attaining the same 

 end, by exhibiting portraits, drawn from nature, of all the foreign 

 as well as indigenous trees and shrubs which can endure the 

 open air in Britain. The private arboretums established or 

 establishing in so many country seats will also do much good 

 in spreading the taste ; and, when it is once properly under- 

 stood that no residence in the modern style can have a claim to 

 be considered as laid out in good taste, in which almost all the 

 trees and shrubs employed are not foreign ones, or improved 

 varieties of indigenous ones, the grounds of every country seat, 

 from the cottage to the mansion, will become an arboretum, dif- 

 fering only in the number of species or duplicates. 



In proposing, in the Gard. Mag., to publish an Arboretum 

 Britannicum, we invited all our friends and readers, in every part 

 of the country, to assist us by giving us notices of fine specimens 

 of exotic trees, or of newly introduced species or varieties, &c. 

 We shall now show, in a more definite form, the kind of inform- 

 ation which we should be glad to receive. As the work will 

 appear in Numbers, we shall, three months before the publication 

 of each, give a list of the kinds which are intended to be figured 

 and treated of in that Number; and, respecting each of the 

 exotic species contained in these lists, we should be glad to 

 receive information with regard to the following particulars, 

 besides any other which may occur to the reader : — 



The Height which an average specimen of any of the species 

 or varieties in the list below may have attained, as a standard, in 

 the open garden or plantation ; and the length of time that it 

 has been planted there. 



The Diameter of the Trunk, when a tree, taken at the height 

 of 1 ft. from the surface on which it stands. 



The Diameter of the Space covered by the Branches, and the 

 general shape of the tree; as whether round, oval, narrow, 

 compact, loose, regular, or irregular. 



Notices of the Impressions made on the mind of the writer, by 

 the properties or circumstances connected with each tree or 

 shrub; such as its appearance during winter; the colour of its 

 spray or young shoots, of its old shoots, and of its trunk ; its 

 kind of bark; its roots, whether racemose and few, or fibrous 

 and numerous ; its budding, leafing, foliage, flowering, fruiting 

 or seeding ; its defoliation, with the colours which the leaves 

 assume before dropping, &c. &c. What, in the above and 

 other particulars, has interested the writer may, by com- 

 munication, interest and benefit others. In the case of species 

 which have thriven remarkably in any given situation, it will be 

 proper to state as many as possible of the circumstances connected 



