PREFACE. 



7. I do not pretend, that, in publishing this 

 work, I am actuated soldtj by a desire to promote 

 public and private utility. There is the gratifica- 

 tion of my own taste, the indulgence of my o^vn 

 delight in talking about trees ; and there are, be- 

 sides, the more ordinary motives of fame and pro- 

 fit : but, I think I do myself no more than jus- 

 tice, in saying, tliat the work must necessarily have 

 a tendency to produce good, both public and private ; 

 while it will always be a singular satisfaction to me to 

 refiect, that it may tend to induce, here and there, a 

 father of a family to point out to his sons and daugh- 

 ters, that it is more honourable, and attended with 

 more happinc^ s, to be provided with competent and 

 secure fortunes by the sowing and the planting of 

 trees, than by endeavouring to succeed in attaining 

 that object after the manner of the base Jews and 

 Jobbers, who win their half-millions by *' watching 

 ^' the turn of the market." 



8. I shall, throughout the work, number the para- 

 [graphs, and not tJie pages ; the former being much 

 the most convenient for purposes of reference : and, 

 at the close, I shall give an Index, referring to the 

 several matters which the work contains. 



^\M. COBBEIT, 



Kensinglon, \st December, 182'). 



