Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum

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.

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;
AND FOUR OF OCTAVO AND QUARTO PLATES.

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LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

Ra

192a
1854

1

The Roman numerals refer to the General Table of Contents, Vol. I. p. xvii. to cliii., where the species
and varieties, with all their synonymes, will be found systematically arranged; the first column of Arabic
figures, to the pages of the text in this volume; and the second, to those of the supplementary matter at
the end of it.

The names of the half-hardy and suffruticose orders and genera are in small type.