Remarks on the management, or rather, the mis-management of woods, plantations, and hedge-row timber

BY J. WEST, Land Agent, &c. &c. NORTH COLLINGHAM, NEWARK, NOTTS.
NEWARK. PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. PERFECT, CARTERGATE. LONGMAN & Co. LONDON.
1842.
TO JOHN EVELYN DENISON, ESQ. M. P.
Sir,
Having had the honor to spend nineteen years in your service as resident Land Agent—having during that period, as well as since, received from you many marks of favour—having on your Estate laid the foundation, and to some extent tested the accuracy, of the opinions which are given in the following pages; I am, I assure you, deeply grateful for the kind permission with which you have favoured me, to dedicate them to you.
If I were to allow myself to indulge in the expression of feelings, which a recollection of my long connection with your Estates might prompt, I should risk your displeasure, for I well know, how distasteful to you would be the language of adulation; I shall therefore only add, that it gives me pleasure to dedicate my Book to you, because, from long experience, I know you to be the zealous patron of improvement in every department of rural economy, and because you are practically and intimately acquainted with the subject on which I have written.
Encouraging as it would be to me if it were so, I do not expect that you will concur with me in all the views to which I have given expression: nevertheless, I trust I may be allowed to hope that, in the main, the principles which are developed will approve themselves to your judgment, and command your approbation.
I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient obliged Servant,
J. WEST.
North Collingham, Notts. 13th June, 1842.
It has probably been with many others as it is with the writer of this, who finds the little which he has to say by way of Preface, more disagreeable, and more difficult, than he has found any other part of his book. A Preface, however, of some sort or other, must be written.