Excerpt from Hortus Lignosus Londinensis, or a Catalogue of All the Ligneous Plants, Indigenous and Foreign, Hardy and Half-Hardy, Cultivated in the Gardens and Grounds in the Neighbourhood of London: With All Their Synonymes, Scientific and Popular, Including Their French, German, and Italian Names; And With Their Native Country, Habit, Habitation in the Garden, Etc Or, the Trees and Shrubs of Great Britain, Native and Foreign, pictoriall'y 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.