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APPENDIX. 



We have given no directions for the bending of plank 

 timber. In larch, the wind generally gives the slight 

 necessary bend to a sufficient proportion ; and in oak, 

 the trees frequently grow a little bent of their own ac- 

 cord. 



A foot-note has been omitted, stating, that the plan of 

 bending young trees, by tying them to an adjacent tree, 

 intended to be soon removed, belongs, as we are informed, 

 to Mr Loudon. 



We regret that our allusion to the lamented Mr Hus- 

 kisson was printed off before we knew of his death. 



Since this volume went to press, there has been some 

 changes of scenery on the political European stage, even 

 rivalling what has ever been accomplished of sylvan me- 

 tamorphosis on the face of nature by Sir Henry Steuart. 

 The intense interest excited by these efforts towards the 

 regeneration of man, has completely thrown into shade 

 our humbler subject — the regeneration of trees. We 

 have even forgot it ourselves in the hands of the printer, 

 while yet unborn. These sudden transformations alter- 

 ing the political and moral relations of man, also render 

 a number of our observations not quite apposite, and our 

 speculations, some of them, rather " prophetic of the 

 past." They, by obliterating national distinctions, and 

 diminishing the occasions for going to war, will, it is 

 hoped, bring the European family closer into amity. At 

 any rate, they have completely thrown out the calcula- 



