WOODLAND GLEANINGS.

"Attractive is the Woodland scene,
Diversified with trees of every growth—
Alike yet various....

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No tree in all the grove but has its charms."

WOODLAND GLEANINGS:

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF

BRITISH FOREST-TREES,

INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED,
WITH SIXTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:
ADAM SCOTT, CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE.

1853.

GLASGOW:
W. G. BLACKIE AND CO., PRINTERS,
VILLAFIELD.

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ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

To those who live in the country, or repair to it fromour cities and towns for recreation or recruitment ofhealth, we trust this will be an acceptable book, especiallyif they are unacquainted with Forest-trees. Ouraim has been to produce a volume that will conveygeneral and particular information respecting the timber-treeschiefly cultivated in the United Kingdom, toinduce further inquiry respecting them, and to impart anew interest to the Woodland. To effect this we havebriefly given their history and description, together withtheir botanical characters, remarks from our best authorson their habits and ornamental properties, on the usualmode of their cultivation, and on the value or utility oftheir timber. We have also introduced accounts of suchremarkable trees as we considered of sufficient note tointerest the general reader.

It has been objected that a few species, not recognisedas Forest-trees, have been included in this work; suchas the Hawthorn, Holly, Mountain-Ash, and WildCherry. But as these have been likewise admitted intoa subsequent work of greater pretensions, the reason[vi]there given by its author will be here equally sufficient:—"Thatthough aware of the secondary rank of these treesin point of dimensions, when compared with the greaterdenizens of the Forest, he felt that the prominent stationthey occupy in the ornamental and picturesque departmentsof our native Sylvia, was sufficient to compensatefor this defect, and to entitle them to the situation inwhich they have been placed."

That the thirty-two species particularly describedmay be the more readily identified, and their botanicalcharacters more easily understood, there has been givena well executed wood-cut representation of the usualgrowth and representation of each tree, and another ofthe leaves, flowers, and fruit.

July 1, 1853.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.