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PREFACE. 
The purpose of this volume is not the addition of one more to 
the numerous treatises upon sylviculture or forestry, but to afford 
a straightforward means for the identification of our native trees 
and larger shrubs for the convenience of the rural rambler and 
Nature-lover. The list of British arborescent plants is a some- 
what meagre one, but all that could be done in a pocket volume 
by way of supplementing it has been done — by adding some 
account of those exotics that have long been naturalized in our 
woods, and a few of more recent introduction that have already 
become conspicuous ornaments in many public and private 
parks. 
In this edition forty-eight extra plates have been added, of 
which twenty-four are in colours. The latter are in part repro- 
ductions of water-colour studies of flowers and fruits, and partly 
from photographs by a new method. For the black and white 
plates, the photographs, it should be explained, have been taken 
upon a novel plan in most cases. This consists in photograph- 
ing a deciduous tree in its summer glory, and returning to the 
same spot in winter and photographing the same individual, so 
that a striking comparison may be made between the summer 
