PREFACE, xi 
fairly astonished to find, as the result of many 
inquiries, how little is known about our British 
Forest Trees. Whilst this ignorance of woodland 
Trees is certainly not due to the absence of a 
desire for an intimate acquaintance with the sub- 
ject, it is scarcely owing to the want of books 
containing information. But with one exception 
—Mr. Leo Grindon’s delightful little ‘ Trees of Old 
England’—no popular modern book with which 
the Author is acquainted, has lovingly discussed 
the subject of Trees, or has, indeed, professed to 
be more than a compilation—or an embodiment 
of facts placed together without necessary order 
or sequence. Nor is there any, easily accessible, 
book which, in its pictorial representations, has 
provided the indispensable element of colour to 
aid the reader’s study. 
The first part of this volume has been written 
in order to supply what the Author believes to 
be essential as an introduction to a study of Forest 
Trees. 
