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is supposed to be of spontaneous growth. There is a similar tree atMill Hill, in Middlesex, on entering that village from the London side.(See Gard. Mag., vol. xii. p. 576 ) There is another tree of thiskind at Munches, in Dumfriesshire; and in Irving’s Nursery, Dum-fries, there were, in 1831, some scores of seedling oaks of the samekind. Indeed, we have no doubt that in all extensive oak woods, or

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