PREFACE. 



will properly precede the instructions relative to par- 

 ticular trees. After this will come the trees in 

 alphabetical order ; describing, under the head of 

 each tree, the several things mentioned in the title 

 of the work; so that, the attentive and diligent 

 reader will, when he sees a seed upon a tree, know 

 what to do with that seed, so that it may, in due 

 time, become a tree. 



5. The inducements to create property by tree- 

 planting are so many and so powerful, that, to the 

 greater part of those who possess the means, little, I 

 hope, need be said to urge them to the employing of 

 those means. Occasions enough will offer for show- 

 ing how quicMij the profits come. But, still there are 

 some persons, who possess such means, who are well 

 assured of the ultimate gain, but who are, never- 

 theless, discouraged by the thought that they shall 

 not live to see the actual pecuniary product of their 

 undertaking, and who, according to the idea of that 

 dismal moralist, Dr. Johnson, begin to think of 

 dying when they are exhorted to plant a tree. Let 

 all such attend to the lesson given them in La Fon- 

 taine's beautiful Fable of the ^' Old Man and the 

 Three Young Men," the Avise, the generous, the 

 noble sentiments of which ought to be implanted in 

 every human breast. 



Un octogenaire plantoit. 

 Passe encor de bdtir ; mais jHanter a cet Age . 

 Disoient trois jouvenceaux, en Pants du voisinage . 

 Assiu'^ment il radotoit. 



