ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

To those who live in the country, or repair to it from our cities and towns for recreation or recruitment of health, we trust this will be an acceptable book, especially if they are unacquainted with Forest-trees. Our aim has been to produce a volume that will convey general and particular information respecting the timber-trees chiefly cultivated in the United Kingdom, to induce further inquiry respecting them, and to impart a new interest to the Woodland. To effect this we have briefly given their history and description, together with their botanical characters, remarks from our best authors on their habits and ornamental properties, on the usual mode of their cultivation, and on the value or utility of their timber. We have also introduced accounts of such remarkable trees as we considered of sufficient note to interest the general reader.

It has been objected that a few species, not recognised as Forest-trees, have been included in this work; such as the Hawthorn, Holly, Mountain-Ash, and Wild Cherry. But as these have been likewise admitted into a subsequent work of greater pretensions, the reason there given by its author will be here equally sufficient:—"That though aware of the secondary rank of these trees in point of dimensions, when compared with the greater denizens of the Forest, he felt that the prominent station they occupy in the ornamental and picturesque departments of our native Sylvia, was sufficient to compensate for this defect, and to entitle them to the situation in which they have been placed."

That the thirty-two species particularly described may be the more readily identified, and their botanical characters more easily understood, there has been given a well executed wood-cut representation of the usual growth and representation of each tree, and another of the leaves, flowers, and fruit.

July 1, 1853.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

1. Alder 41

2. Leaves and Catkins 43

3. Ash 47

4. Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit 51

5. Beech 55

6. Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit 59

7. Birch 63

8. Leaves and Catkins 65

9. Cedar of Lebanon 69

10. Foliage, Cone, &c. 73

11. Chestnut 77

12. Leaves, Catkins, &c. 79

13. Elm 82

14. Leaves and Flowers 85

15. Hawthorn 92

16. Leaves, Blossom, and Fruit 95

17. Hazel 98

18. Leaves, Catkins, and Nuts 100

19. Holly 103

20. Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit 105

21. Hornbeam 109

22. Leaves, Catkins, and Fruit 111

23. Horse-Chestnut 114

24. Leaves, Flowers, &c. 117

25. Larch 122

26. Foliage, Catkins, &c. 125

27. Lime, or Linden 132

28. Leaves and Flowers 135

29. Maple 139

30. Leaves, Flowers, and Seeds 141

31. Mountain-Ash 145

32. Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit 147

33. Mulberry 152

34. Leaves and Fruits 155

35. Oak 158

36. Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit 161

37. Oriental Plane 189

38. Leaves, and Globes of Flowers 191

39. Occidental Plane 196

40. Leaves and Flowers 199

41. Poplar 201

42. (White) Leaves, Flowers, and Catkins 203

43. Scotch Fir or Pine 207

44. Foliage, Catkins, Cones, &c. 209

45. Silver Fir 217

46. Foliage and Cones 219

47. Spruce Fir 222

48. Foliage and Cones 225

49. Sycamore 227

50. Leaves, Flowers, and Samaræ 229

51. Walnut 233

52. Leaves, Catkins, and Nuts 235

53. Weymouth Pine 239

54. Foliage, Cones, &c. 241

55. Whitebeam 243

56. Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit 245

57. Wild Black Cherry 247

58. Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit 249

59. Wild Service 253

60. Leaves and Flowers 255

61. Willow 257

62. (Crack) Leaves and Catkins of S. fragilis 263

63. Yew 269

64. Foliage, Leaves, and Fruit 271