PREFACE

TO

THE SECOND EDITION.

When the Arboretum Britannicum was first published it appeared inNumbers ; and, as all the trees were drawn from nature, they were publishedas they could be obtained, blanks being left for those of which good speci-mens could not be found. These blanks were afterwards, in most cases,filled up; but sometimes it was discovered that different names had beengiven to the same plant, and consequently that there was only one tree tofill up the spaces that had been left for two names; while, in other cases, thesame tree was found so different at different periods of its growth, as torender two or more plates of it desirable. These circumstances occasionedmany inaccuracies in the plates, which were noticed in the errata ; butshortly 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 isthis corrected edition that is now offered to the public.

J. W. Loudon.

Baystvater, March 7 . 1844 .

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