'r H E 
n o 1 I T 1 c u L r mi x l r e g i s r e r . 
December \st, 1831. 
PART I.-HORTICULTURE, &c. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATK)NS. 
Article I. — On the Improvenient of Forest Tree Plantations. 
]3y The Author of ‘‘The Domestic Gardener’s 
Manual,” a Member of the liondon Horticultural 
Society. 
« 
Genti.emen, 
On re-perusing the fourth article of your first, and the ninth of 
your second number, by your correspondent Quercus, on the subject of 
Arboriculture, it has occurred to me that I might in a degree, contribute 
to the diffusion of useful information on a subject of such national im¬ 
portance as that of the cultivation of Timber Trees; and at the same 
time, further your views of “promoting the interests of that branch of 
Natural History, which is connected with the production and improve¬ 
ment of Forest Scenery.” I, in common with your correspondent, 
lament that “wide-spread, and almost universal ignorance,” that obsti¬ 
nate pei sistence in erroneous practice, which unfortunately prevails; and 
I therefore conceive that I cannot do your readers a more essential ser¬ 
vice, than to direct their attention to three little works connected with 
the subject of forest trees, which have recently appeared. They are 
from the pen of William Withers, Esq, of Holt, in Norfolk, and are 
equally estimable for the elegance and perspicuity of the style in whic'i 
they are written, as for the sterling worth, and undeniable evidence of 
the facts which they adduce. The first, in the order of its publication, 
was entitled “A Memoir, addressed to the Society for the'Encouragement 
of Arts, &c., on the Planting and Rearing of Forest Trees,” 1827. 
The second was, “A Letter to Sir W^’affer Scott, exposing certain errors 
in his late Essay on Plantin'^:,'’ &:c. &c. 1828; and the third, “A better 
to Sir Henry Stewart, Bart., on the improvement of the Value of Tim¬ 
ber,” &c. 1829. 
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