PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 



As the former editions of the Planter s Guide 

 are now out of print, and copies of the work 

 have frequently been called for, a new and 

 greatly improved edition has been accordingly 

 prepared, containing three additional sections, 

 accompanied with notes, on the nature and 

 cultivation of British forest trees, which had 

 been drawn up by Sir Henry Steuart previous 

 to his death, with a view to a third edition. 

 Such as these MSS. emanated from the hands 

 of the Author of the original work, with his 

 final corrections, they are now appended to this 

 edition, and form the 12th, 13th, and 14th 

 sections, with their corresponding notes in the 

 appendix. 



The title of the work has been slightly 

 altered, with the view of not encumbering 

 the title-page with unnecessary matter. The 

 original title describes the Planter s Guide to 

 be " an attempt to place the art, and that of 

 general arboriculture, on phytological and fixed 

 principles ; interspersed with observations on 

 general planting, and the improvement of real 



