HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G. F.L.8. 



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My Lord Duke, 



To no individual could the following 

 pages be inscribed with so perfect a propriety, as to one who 

 takes so great a pleasure in encouraging the efforts of science in 

 general, and in patronizing in particular those discoveries in 

 Botany and improvements in Horticulture, which have engaged 

 so large a portion of your Grace's personal attention ; and this 

 persuasion is much increased, by the consideration, that no one 

 can, at the same time, feel a greater interest in the introduction 

 of new and valuable plants to his collections, than the Duke of 

 Bedford. 



I beg, therefore, with all humility and respect, to dedicate the 

 " Hortus Woburnensis" to your Grace ; and> at the same time, 

 to return my grateful acknowledgments for the access kindly 

 granted me to the numerous splendid Botanical Works in the 

 Libraries at Woburn Abbey, which have been of infinite assist- 

 ance to me in identifying many of the Plants enumerated in the 

 following Catalogue. 



I have the honour to be, 



My Lord Duke, 



Your Grace's 

 Most Obliged, and very Obedient Servant, 



JAMES FORBES. 



Woburn Abbey Gardens, 



July, 1833. 



