PREFACE. 



The Planter of the Shrubbery has endea- 

 voured to dispose his trees and form his 

 groves in a manner that may render his 

 walks agreeable to every age and class, 

 that may be disposed to seek information 

 or amusement among the various plants 

 of the Sylva Florifera. Should his efforts 

 fail of success, he will at least enjoy the con- 

 sciousness of having attempted to please all 

 the admirers of Nature's works, by studying to 

 render every common an interesting pleasure 

 ground, and every hedge a pleasing plantation, 

 by the information he has endeavoured to 

 collect respecting the plants that flourish in 

 them. 



The author has also tried to make his book 

 an agreeable companion to the traveller, who, 

 as he passes through woods and lanes, may 

 never feel himself solitary, but have his 



