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PREFACE. 
“What shall I plant?” seems one of the great in- 
quiries, in attempting to answer which, the Editor of this 
New Edition has endeavored to give a list of such of the 
newer trees and shrubs as have come into notice within 
the past ten years, with such descriptions of their habits 
and character as his own information, together with the 
experience of others (both, he regrets to say, very mea- 
gre), will enable him to give. 
With regard to the acclimatizing of Evergreens, he 
would have preferred to have had the experience of 
another year, in order to test still further certain varie- 
ties, as yet comparatively untried ; but perhaps some 
future edition may enable him to do this. 
In conclusion, he would beg to acknowledge the assist- 
ance he has derived, in the identification and classification 
of new and doubtful varieties, from Mr. Gordon’s excel- 
lent work on “ The Pinetum,” and also from the very 
complete and thorough “Traite General des Conifbres,” 
par M. Carriere. 
To those gentlemen, in this country, who have given 
him the result of their experience in acclimatizing Ever- 
greens, he desires also to make his acknowledgments. 
H. W. S. 
WODENETHE, FlSHKILL LANDING, DUCHESS Co., 
New York, January, 1859. 
