Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Louise Pryor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries). This file is gratefully uploaded to the PG collection in honor of Distributed Proofreaders having posted over 10,000 ebooks. {Transcriber's note: The spelling and punctuation in the original are idiosyncratic and inconsistent. No changes have been made except as explicitly noted at the end of this e-text. This e-text includes a number of phrases and passages in Greek, as well as a few special characters including œ Œ ℥ ⅔. If these characters do not display properly, or if the quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or ‘file encoding’ is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the latin-1 version of this file instead.} SYLVA: _OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST TREES & THE PROPAGATION OF TIMBER_ _V O L U M E O N E_ {Illustration: _John Evelyn_ _From the engraving by R. Nanteuil_} S Y L V A _OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST TREES_: BY JOHN EVELYN F.R.S. _WITH AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE AUTHOR_ BY JOHN NISBET D.Œc. A REPRINT OF THE FOURTH EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME ONE LONDON: PUBLISHED BY ARTHUR DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY LIMITED AT 8 YORK BUILDINGS ADELPHI CONTENTS. VOLUME I. Introduction page ix Title Page of 4th Edition „ lxxiii To the King „ lxxv To the Reader „ lxxvii Advertisement „ xcix Books published by the Author „ ci Amico carissimo „ cii Nobilissimo Viro „ ciii ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΟΣ ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΙΑΝ „ cvi The Garden.--To J. Evelyn, Esq. „ cvii BOOK I.