AUTHOR: Boutcher, William. TITLE: A treatise on forest-trees; containing not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments: as also, plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest trees, by William Boutcher. IMPRINT: Edinburgh: printed by R. Fleming, 1775. COLLATION: 4, xlviii, 259, [3] p.; 26 x 21 cm. NOTES: “This work contains not only the best methods for cultivating trees, but also ‘plain directions fro removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards,’ as well as for ‘transplanting hedges of sundry kinds, which will at once resist cattle,’ and for the ‘disposition, planting, and culture of hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten.’ In response to the practice of growing large numbers of trees on crowded plots for maximum profit, Boutcher, a nurseryman from Comely-Garden in Edinburgh, encouraged the growth of strong, healthy trees and a general scientific approach to arboriculture. Henrey says that this is the best 18th century work on its subject, and quotes H. L. Edlin as saying that it contains, even now, ‘much of interest and practical application in present-day forest nurseries.’” — Phillip J. Pirages, catalogue 45 KEYWORDS: 1. Forests and forestry. 2. Trees. LOCATION: SD391.B78 1775 OTHER CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS: UC Riverside; UC Davis; UC Berkeley