TO 



HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, 



THE QUEEN, 



WHOSE REIGN HAS BEEN NOT MORE ILLUSTRIOUS FOR NATIONAL PROSPERITY, 



FOR THOSE PUBLIC VIRTUES WHICH ADORN THE SOVEREIGN, 

 AND FOR THE MORAL QUALITIES WHICH GRACE AND DIGNIFY DOMESTIC LIFE, 

 THAN FOR THE EXHIBITION OF THOSE TASTES WHICH RECEIVE 

 THEIR HIGHEST GRATIFICATION FROM THE 

 BEAUTIES OF NATURAL LANDSCAPE^ 

 THIS TREATISE, 

 BY THE LATE SIR H^NRY STEUART, 



DESIGNED TO ILLUSTRATE 



"THE ART OF CREATING REAL LANDSCAPE," 



BY AN APPLICATION OF 

 THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY TO GENERAL AND PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE, 

 IS BY ROYAL PERMISSION, WITH PROFOUNDEST RESPECT, 

 INSCRIBED, 

 JGHTER, AN 

 MOST FAITHFUL SUBJECT, 



ELIZABETH SETON STEUART, 



HEK majesty's HERBDITARV ARMOUR-BEARER 

 FOR SCOTLAND. 



