vi PREFACE 



In my endeavour to describe the beauties of our 

 familiar trees, I must here acknowledge my indebted- 

 ness to many Avriters whose works I have laid under 

 contribution, but more especially to the artists, the 

 results of whose labours form the main attraction of 

 this book, to Messrs. W. H. J. Boot, R.B.A., and 

 A. Fairfax Muckley, who have painted the originals 

 of the coloured plates ; to Messrs. J. A. Weale and 

 F. W. Saxby, who have made and photographed the 

 microscopic sections of woods and pine-needles; and 

 to Messrs. F. Mason Good, H. Irving, and E. J. 

 Wallis, from whose photographs the uncoloured plates 

 of trees are taken. 



G. S. BOULGER.- 



