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CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Uses of Trees, 1. Ornaments, 2. Interchange of Trees, 3. Arrangement of the 

 Work, 4. 



PART I. 



GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE TREES 

 AND SHRUBS OF TEMPERATE CLIMATES. 



Chap. I. 



Of the Knowledge of Trees and Shrubs 

 which existed among the Nations of 

 Antiquity, 15. 



Sacred Trees, 15. Trees of the Egyptians and 

 Persians, 16. Enumeration of the Species of 

 Trees indigenous to Greece as given by Theo- 

 phrastus, 17. Trees of the Romans, l l J. 



Chap. II. 



Of the History and Geography of the 

 Trees and Shrubs now in the British 

 Islands, 20. 



Sect. I. Of the Native Trees and 

 Shrubs of the British Islands, 20. 



Trees found by Caesar, 20. Trees, the indige- 

 nousness of which is considered doubtful, 21. 

 Beech, Sweet Chestnut, English Elm, &c, 22. 

 The Box, 25. Trees known to our Saxon 

 Ancestors, 26. Enumeration of the Species 

 and Varieties of Ligneous Plants included in 

 the British Flora, from Smith and Hooker, 

 27. Classification of the Ligneous British 

 Flora, according to height, habit, and popu- 

 lar character, 30. 



Sect. II. Of the Foreign Trees and 

 Shrubs introduced into the British 

 Isles, 31. 



Subsect. 1. Of the Foreign Trees 

 and Shrubs introduced into 

 Britain by the Romans, and 

 during the Middle Ages, till the 

 end of the 15th Century, 32. 



Trees and Shrubs introduced by the Romans 

 32. ; by the Occupiers of Monasteries and 

 other religious Houses, and by the Cru- 

 saders, 33. Introduction of the cultivated 

 Rose, 33. York and Lancaster Rose, 34. 

 Foreign Trees and Shrubs of Scotland 

 and Ireland, 34. 



Subsect. 2. Of the Foreign Trees 

 and Shrubs introduced into 

 Britain in the 16th Century, 35. 



Trees and Shrubs introduced in the time of 

 Henry VIII., 35. Fitzherbert, Turner, 

 Goodge, L'Obel, Grindal, Hampden, Ge- 

 rard, &c, 35. Trees and Shrubs in the 

 Earl of Essex's Garden at Barn Elms, 36. 

 Corbett's Nursery at Twickenham, 36. 

 Raleigh's Park in Dorsetshire, 36. Enume- 

 ration of the Species of Trees and Shrubs 

 introduced into England during the 16th 

 Century, by Hugh Morgan, Gray, L'Obel, 

 Grindal, Gerard, &c, 36. 39. 



Subsect. 3. Of the Foreign Trees 

 and Shrubs introduced into Bri- 

 tain in the 17th Century, 40. 



Tradescant's Garden at Lambeth, Bishop 

 Compton's Garden at Fulham, 41. Ray's 

 Historia Plantarum, 41. Dr. Mitchel, Sir 

 Wm, Watson, Mr. Bentick, Dr. Plukenet, 

 Sir Hans Sloane, Furber of Kensington, 

 Gray of Fulham, &c, 41. Enumeration of 

 Species of Foreign Trees and Shrubs found 

 in the Episcopal Garden at Fulham in 1751, 

 42. ; in 1793, and again in 1809, by Lyson, 

 43. ; in 1835, 44. Banister, Evelyn, Her- 

 mann, Gibson, Sir Stephen Fox, London 

 and Wise, Cooke, Lukar, London and 

 Field, Dr. Uvedale, Miller, &c, 42. 46. 

 Enumeration of the Trees and Shrubs in- 

 troduced into England during the 17th Cen- 

 tury, according to the Hortus Kewensis, 49. 

 Harefield Park, 52. Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden, Oxford Botanic Garden, 53. 



Subsect. 4. Of the Foreign Trees 

 and Shrubs introduced into 

 Britain during the 18th Cen- 

 tury, 54. 



Trees and Shrubs introduced at Whitton, 

 Goodwood, Syon, &c.,54. Miller, Bradley, 

 Switzer, Linnaeus, Peter Collinson, the 

 London Nurserymen, &c, 54. Ridgway 

 House Garden, 54. London Gardens in 

 1712, 55. Lord Petrc's Collection, 55. 



