Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland: Index, Etc
IN the Introduction to the first volume of this work, published in 1906, we stated the objects which we had in view, and which, during the seven years which have now elapsed, we have endeavoured to carry out to the best of our power. If the patience of our Subscribers has been unduly taxed, we can only say that the magnitude of the task which we set before us was even then hardly realised; and that the difficulty of discovering, identifying, describing, and figuring the rare and remarkable trees in Great Britain is one which grew with our knowledge, and with each succeeding volume. The want Of order in this work, on which some of our reviewers have remarked, has been really of the greatest service; for by leaving the more difficult and little-known. Genera to the last, we have been able to make the work more complete and accurate than it would have been if. Every genus had been taken in its accepted botanical sequence; and though a few additions may be made to the earlier volumes, we know of no really important omissions in them.
Though some local botanists and arboriculturists have studied the native trees of their own counties with more or less care, British botanists, until recently, have taken little notice of the trees which form so conspicuous a feature in the vegetation and scenery of England; and in many counties, whose ?ora, birds, and insects have been most carefully and accurately studied by local naturalists, we have found no one who, apparently, knew or cared for the trees, and have had to depend largely on our own observations.
An immense quantity of foreign as well as British literature has been referred to, as evidenced by almost every page of the work; but a general bibliography seems unnecessary, as the references are fully given; as well as the authority for nearly every fact, opinion, or observation not made by ourselves.
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