CONTENTS. 



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MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, ----- i 

 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION, _ - - - XXxix 



PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION, - - - - xlili 



SECTION I. 



UTILITY AND IMPORTANCE OF ARBORICULTURE. ART OF GIVING IMMEDIATE 

 EFFECT TO WOOD. 



Planting extensively practised, but not scientifically studied in 

 Scotland. — Importance of a society exclusively for the improve- 

 ment of arboriculture. — Origin of landscape gardening in Eng- 

 land. Kent, Brown, Price. Power of obtaining the immediate 

 command of wood a desideratum in that art. — Partiality to 

 wood strong and universal. Vast power of the transplanting 

 machine. Effects produced by it at Allanton House. — Great 

 utility of applying physiological principles to general planting. 

 — Inspection by the Highland Society. — Real landscape created 

 in the park at Allanton, between 1816 and 1821. View in the 

 park there, plate I. — The art established on fixed principles. 1-15 



SECTION II. 



history of THE ART, FROM THE EARLIEST DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIMES. 



Wood attentively cultivated by the Ancients. Theophrastus, Cato, 

 Varro, Columella. — Landscape painting unknown till the age 

 of Augustus. The removal of large trees generally practised at 

 Rome. Pliny, the younger Seneca. — Comparison between the 

 Greek and Roman methods. — Revival of the art in Europe, in 

 the l7th century. Surprising achievement of Count Maurice of 

 Nassau. His splendid gardens in Brazil. — Efforts of the Germans 

 and French. Gigantic operations of Louis XIV, — The art cul- 



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