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URING the early part of the last century, the whole subject of horticulture 
received great impetus in England. In that period, largely through the 
efforts of the Royal Horticultural Society and some large aggressive 
nurseries, plant explorers were dispatched to the new countries in search of new 
trees. Of great interest were the forests of the Northwest Pacific Coast, the present 
states of Washington and Oregon. The immense Evergreens of that region fired 
the imagination of many planters, and interest in Evergreens went forward by 
leaps and bounds. During that period also the unknown Evergreens of Asia and 
Australia were brought to England. 
Ir BECAME THE CUSTOM for many wealthy owners of English Estates to 
act as patrons of horticulture and several extensive collections of Evergreens 
called “*Pinetums” were established. Following this, numerous elaborate books 
were published, many of them privately printed editions, luxuriously illustrated 
with colored pictures. 
ONE OF THESE BOOKS, published privately by the Duke of Bedford, and 
entitled **Pinetum Woburnense” was printed in 1839. There were only one 
hundred copies printed and the plates destroyed. This was before the days of color 
printing, and the illustrations, of which there are sixty-five in this particular 
volume, were lithographed on stone, printed in black and then laboriously hand 
painted in colors for each book. 
ONE OF THESE RARE BOOKS, of which there are probably not more than 
three or four copies in the United States, 1s in the Library of the H1itu Nursery 
Company. From this interesting old volume we have reproduced one of the color 
plates, which is shown on the cover of this catalog. This subject is the Douglas Fir, 
a tree which was quite new at the time, but which in the intervening years has 
become a great favorite because of its many fine qualities. 
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