
            To the READER.

THE contents of the preceding pages being intended to answer the
purposes of more voluminous works on Trees, Shrubs, and Pleasure
Ground Plantations, as all the necessary and essential parts thereof, and
as much as may be deemed useful and directive in the foregoing, are presented
as an epitome for the unexperienced Planter's guide; the following
pages, therefore, as an assistant in the choice of Trees and Shrubs
suitable for such Plantations, are offered for his consideration and observation:  
the general arrangement of which being alphabetical, is divided into
Classes, according to the different heights (as near as can be judged of) the
various Trees and Shrubs usually grow to on such Soils as are supposed to
be neither exceeding rich, nor very poor or barren. But as several species,
of divers [diverse] families, of plants are exceedingly disproportionate in their growth
to each other, hence the reason why some plants of the same genus are
placed in the following List in two different classes, by which means the
Planter may readily discover the Situation where they should be planted
among the various other kinds of the same growth; for the column of
heights, and the column of foliage, will direct him in the choice of his 
Trees and Shrubs, the one respecting the height in feet they usually grow
to, and the other to contrast and diversify the differents leaves and tints of
colour, so as to render the whole plantation, when arrived at its perfection
of growth, the most agreeable and pleasing to the eye.

N.B. IN the flower column where it is marked H, it implies an hermaphrodite
flower; those marked M signifies a male flower, and does F a 
female flower; and, in the adjoining column, F stands for fruit, and S
for seed.
        