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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART U 



published by Sepps, which appeared in one volume 4to, in 1773, at both places ; 

 and at Amsterdam, with a translation of the German descriptions into Dutch. 

 It was published at about 15/., and sells in London for from 8/. to 10/. 



In Germany, the first work exclusively devoted to trees and shrubs, which 

 was published in modern times, was the Harbkesche Baumzucht theils nord- 

 amerikenischer und fremder, &c., of J. P. Du Roi, which appeared in two volumes 

 8vo. in 1771-2 J to this succeeded the Osterreiches allgemeine Baumzucht of 

 Schmidt, the first two volumes of which appeared in 1792, and the third in 1800 

 price 10/. This is an excellent work as far as it goes. The next German 

 work which appeared was the Berlinische Baumzucht of C. L.Willdenow, in one 

 volume Svo, the second edition of which appeared in 1811. In this volume 

 are described all the trees and shrubs which grew at the time in the Berlin 

 Botanic Garden. It is observed by Watson, in his introduction to his Den- 

 drologia, p. vii., that, in the Bcrlmische Baumzucht, " the parts of the plant in 

 each description are placed in the same order, and not in the often vague, 

 slovenly, and reiterated way of many botanic writers." In 1810, appeared 

 the first number of Abbildung der deutsclten Holzarten, &c., by F. Giiimpel, 

 C. L. Willdenow, and F. G. Hayne. It was completed with 36 numbers in 

 1820. It contains 216 coloured plates, and the price in London is 16/. In 

 1819, another work on the trees of Germany appeared, which included all 

 those foreign species which stand the open air in that country. It is entitled 

 Abbildung der fremden in Deutschland aiisdauernden Holzarten, &c. ; by F. 

 Guimpel, F. Otto, and F. G. Hayne. It forms one volume 4to., contains 100 

 plates, and costs in London 6/. The Germans have a species of pubHcation, 

 or rather portable museum, which they call Holzbibliothck (Wood Library). 

 A hundred or more sorts of wood, with dried specimens of the leaves, flowers, 

 seed, and winter's wood of each species, are put loose into little cases about 

 the size of 8vo volumes, and these are finished exteriorly like books, and the 

 back lettered with the name of the wood in different languages. There are 

 two libraries of this description, which arc more particularly in repute j one 

 published at Munich, and the other at Nuremberg. The former contains 100 

 sorts of wood, and costs about 100/., and the latter 80 sorts, and costs 80/. 

 There are also engravings and descriptions of these woods, at various prices 

 from 10/. to 30/.; one of the best of these is Hildte's, published at Weimar 

 in 1798, price 15/. 



We are not aware of any other work of magnitude exclusively devoted to 

 the description and history of trees and shrubs, having been published in any 

 of the other countries of Europe ; but in America, besides the English trans- 

 lation of Michavix,^ already mentioned, which appeared there as well as in 

 Paris, in 1817, there is the Sylva Americana of D. J. Brown, which was pub- 

 lished at Boston in 1832. The cost in London of this work is I/. Is. 



It will be recollected, that in this notice we have only given the titles of the 

 principal works devoted exclusively to the description and history of trees and 

 shrubs, those which treat on the formation and management of plantations, on 

 forests and woodlands, and on planting trees generally, whether for useful or 

 ornamental purposes, are exceedingly numerous, and will be passed under re- 

 view in the Introduction to the Fourth Part of this work. 



CHAP. VI. 



CONCLUSION. 



Two considerations may be drawn from .the preceding history : the first, 

 respecting the introduction of foreign trees and shrubs ; and the second, re- 

 specting arboricultural literature. 



On comparing the lists which we have given of ligneous plants, found in 



