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PREFACE. 



Whether a work upon the plan adopted by the Author 

 of the following pages be calculated to prove useful, or 

 to supply a deficiency in the list of those works relating 

 to dendrology which we already possess, must be left to 

 the opinion and decision of that public to which his 

 volume is now respectfully submitted. In claiming its 



- indulgence, and as some apology for the present attempt, 

 he may, perhaps, be permitted to remark, that, of the 

 various works which bear more or less directly upon the 

 subject, the majority differ in their scope and character 

 from the one which now solicits the patronage of the 

 public. Most of these treatises are restricted in their 

 design, and are confined to certain departments of den- 

 drology, and operations connected with the general cul- 



-Hure and management of Forest Trees, and do not enter 

 upon the particular history, or any detailed account, of 

 individual species. Of this description are the works of 

 Pontey, Menteith, Nichol, Sang, Billington, and various 



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