IV PREFACE. 



Having been born w^ith a strong passion 

 for gardening and planting, and feeling the 

 ruling passion still strong v^ithin me in old 

 age, I have employed the time, when the 

 weather has prevented my working out of 

 doors, by recording my own practice and 

 experience, and reducing my notions and 

 observations into shape, in the hope that by 

 condensing my matter into plain and intel- 

 ligible detail, and within proper compass, 

 it may receive the indulgence of my readers, 

 and excite the nobility and landed proprie- 

 tary of North Derbyshire to early planting, 

 and the selection of those kinds of trees, 

 the timber of which is best adapted for the 

 uses and demands of our coal-fields and 

 manufacturing districts, and are best suited 

 to our own peculiar climate and its humid 

 atmosphere. Mr. Evelyn complains of the 

 neglect of this in his own time, and justly 

 observes, " There is no part of husbandry 



