PREFACE. 



In the books hitherto pubUfhed on the cultivation of Foreft 

 Trees, the rules have been very fhort and confined •. Their 

 authors feem generally to have adopted the opinion, which yet 

 unhappily prevails amongft the greateft number of unexperienced 

 planters, that when they have put a young tree in the ground, 

 they have done their duty, and that their labours are at an end : 

 But fuch are fomewhat like unnatural parents, who negledl to 

 tend and fofter their infant offspring, iince trees, as well .as ani-. 

 mals, muft have food and difcipline, to rear them to {Irength, 

 maturity, and good order. Thefe books comprehend no more, 

 than fowing the feeds, planting the cuttings, or laying down 

 the branches in their proper feafon, there to abide a certain time, 

 and from thence to be tranfplanted to the nurfery, where they, 

 are to continue two, three, or four years ; from the nurfery, to 

 be removed to the places where they are meant to remain for. 

 good ; and thus the bufinefs is at an end. But this Treatife is 

 much more comprehenfive : It contains not only the befl me- 

 thods of propagating plants in all their various ways, and of theii: 

 culture to the common ages and fizes of tranfplanting prefent- 

 ly pradlifed in Great-Britain, but will alfo4nftru6l the gardener, 

 by plain, eafy, and certain methods, to remove moft of the va- 

 luable deciduous Foreft Trees, to the height of thirty feet or up- 

 wards, with the fame fafety as the fmalleft plant ; and that fuch 

 will not only be as handfome trees, but will ever after advance, 

 as mvich in growth, as thofe (landing in the fame, kind of foil and 

 fituation, from having been planted young ; and that they will, 

 without the expence of flaking, refift the moft impetuous winds, 

 the greateft enemy of new-planted trees raifed and managed in 

 the common way. 



