APPENDIX. 



I HAVE given the following extract from a work 

 published in 1718 by Robert Bradley, Esq., 

 F.R.S., with a quotation from Peter Bellonius, 

 " De neglecta Stirpium Cultura:" "Agile, o 

 adolescentes, et antequam canities vobis obrepat, 

 stirpes jam alueritis, quae vobis, cum insigni uti- 

 litate, delectationem etiam adferent," inscribed 

 in its title-page, as well as the passages taken 

 from a small work published in 1833, and now 

 out of print, as corroborative of my own opinions 

 and their practical results in my own case, and 

 with the hope that the simplicity and beauty of 

 their descriptions may soften down, as it were in 

 painting, the tone and colour of my own : — 



" Vegetation, in whatever degree I shall treat 

 of it, is equally depending on the order of nature : 

 whether I speak of trees, shrubs, or herbaceous 



