BRITANNICUM; OR, THE TREES AND SHRUBS OF BRITAIN, Native and Foreign, Hardy and Half-Hardy, PICTORIALLY AND BOTANICALLY DELINEATED, AND SCIENTIFICALLY AND POPULARLY DESCRIBED; WITH THEIR PROPAGATION, CULTURE, MANAGEMENT, AND USES IN THE ARTS, IN USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS, AND IN LANDSCAPE-GARDENING ; PRECEDED BY A HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF THE TREES AND SHRUBS OF TEMPERATE CLIMATES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Join Cit BY J. C. LOUDON, F.L. & H.S. &c. AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF GARDENING AND OF AGRICULTURE. IN EIGHT VOLUMES: FOUR OF LETTERPRESS, ILLUSTRATED BY ABOVE 2500 ENGRAVINGS; VOL. I. HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, AND SCIENCE; AND DESCRIPTIONS, FROM SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR; AND SOLD BY LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. WHEN the Arboretum Britannicum was first published it appeared in Numbers; and, as all the trees were drawn from nature, they were published as they could be obtained, blanks being left for those of which good specimens could not be found. These blanks were afterwards, in most cases, filled up; but sometimes it was discovered that different names had been given to the same plant, and consequently that there was only one tree to fill up the spaces that had been left for two names; while, in other cases, the same tree was found so different at different periods of its growth, as to render two or more plates of it desirable. These circumstances occasioned many inaccuracies in the plates, which were noticed in the errata; but shortly previous to Mr. Loudon's death he had all these faults corrected, preparatory to a new impression of the plates being printed off; and it is this corrected edition that is now offered to the public. Bayswater, March 7. 1844. J. W. LOUDON. |