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views of the same trunk. A smaller tree, growing near this one, and repre-sented by b, has the junction of the trunks nearer the ground. Another spe-cimen, growing near a farm-house, is represented by d ; and a fourth one by c.All these oaks are within a short distance of each other; and Mr. Bree thinksthe trunks were probably joined artificially by some one who had a fancy forsuch experiments. They are all of the species Q. pedunculata. The figuresare to a scale of 1 in. to 1 2 ft.

Oaks conjoined with other Trees. The oak being a tree of great duration,and its trunk, in the course of years, spreading wider than that of manytrees, not unfrequently grows round the stems of trees which grow close byit; or, its trunk becoming hollow, and the head being broken off by storms,other trees frequently spring up within it, and produce a flourishing head en-cased with an oak trunk. Hence, we have an oak conjoined with an ash nearthe lake at Welbeck, figured in Rooke’s Remarkable Oaks , &c., pi. 6. This ashgrows out of the bottom of a large oak, “ to which it adheres to the height ofabout 6 ft.; it there separates, and leaves a space of nearly 3 ft. in height.Here, as if unwilling to be disunited, it stretches out an arm, or little protube-rance, to coalesce again with the fostering oak.” At Bearwood, near Reading,

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