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ornamental trees," contains a series of concise and well-written mono- 

 graphs of such trees as have been found suitable to our soil and climate. 

 The value of the Weymouth pine as a timber producer in this country 

 has hardly been fully recognised, while the size to which it attains is 

 much underrated. So, too, the profits of afforesting waste lands, which 

 are by no means mythical, having in several well-known instances been 

 carefully recorded in conjunction with the cost of formation and manage- 

 ment. Animal and insect pests in relation to our woodlands are well 

 illustrated, though numbers of the latter, which have been carefully 

 tabulated, do little or no damage to trees growing in this country. The 

 formation and management of plantations are clearly set forth in the 

 chapter devoted to that part of the work, though in many of the details 

 opinions will differ greatly, as particular districts may necessitate changes 

 from any stereotyped rules for thinning or disposing of the forest 

 produce. Altogether the book will be found the most elaborate and far 

 reaching of any work that has hitherto been published on the subject, 

 while the numerous well-executed illustrations should go far in elucidating 

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