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arboretum AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

and sheep; while those of the common species, in the same pasture, areeaten. The wood makes excellent fuel. There are plants in the Horti-cultural Society’s Garden, which, in spring, when their leaves are expanding,are of very great beauty and singularity; and the species, on that account,well deserves culture as an ornamental tree. There are some small trees,in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, 6 ft. or 8 ft. high. In France, inBrittany, at Barres, 8 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. In Germany, atBriick on the Leytha, near Vienna, 15 years from the acorn, it is 6 ft. high.In Italy, at Monza, 16 years planted, it is 14 ft. high. There are someplants at Messrs. Loddiges’s j and, in the catalogue of the Kensington Nur-sery for 1834, seedling plants are marked at 50«. per thousand. At presentwe are not aware of plants being in any nursery, except a few at Messrs.Loddiges’s; but acorns may be had from Paris or Bourdeaux in abundance;and there is scarcely a speeies of the genus more deserving of culture, forthe beauty of its spring foliage.

Varieties. In the Nouveau Du Hamel three are mentioned : — 1. With largeacorns, on peduncles, axillary and terminal; 2. With axillary acorns of amiddle size ; and, 3. With small acorns, on long racemes. Desvaux, in theJournal de Botaniqae for 1808, mentions Q. Tauzin laciniata, having jaggedleaves; and Q. T. digitata, having digitate leaves. Bose speaks of a driedspecimen in his possession, which he thinks may belong to the true cheneAngoumois; which, he says, is often confounded with Q. Tauzin and Q.C'erris. To this specimen he has given the name of Q. Ligeris, or cheneligerien. In the London Horticultural Society’s Garden there is an oakwhich was received from M. Schammes of Pesth, in Hungary, under thename of Q. conferta, which appears to belong to Q. pyrenaica; but, nothaving seen the fruit, we cannot be quite certain of this.

¥ 4. Q. apenni'na Lam. The Apennine Oak.

Identification. Lam. Diet. Encycl., 1. p.725. j N. Du Ham.,

7. p. 177.Bose M£m. sur les Chines.

Synonymcs. Q. conglomerata Pers. ; Chene hivernal, Fr.

Engravings. N. Du Ham., 7. t. 53.; and our fig. 1698.

Spec. Char.y 8fc. Leaves oval-oblong, petiolated, sinuated, pu-bescent beneath, bordered with obtuse lobes, somewhatangular. Acorns oval, disposed along a short peduncle.

(Lam.) The leaves are exceedingly woolly beneath ; theacorns small, almost globular, and sometimes borne to thenumber of 8 or 10 on one peduncle, not above 1 in. inlength. The tree does not attain a large size, seldom ex-ceeding thejheight of 20 ft. According to the 'Nouveau DuHamely it is intermediate between Q. sessiliflbra pubescensand Q. pedunculkta. Bose says it is very distinct from Q.pedunculkta, and from every other species of (2u£rcus. Hefound it in abundance, he says, on the mountains in theneighbourhood of Lyons ; and it is also indigenous to Italyand to the Levant. It is always found in dry places, onsandy or stony soils. There are plants in Paris and atVersailles, and in the Bois de Boulogne. The name is inBritish catalogues^ but no year is given forits introduction,nor have we ever seen or heard of a plant of it. Acornsmight, doubtless, be obtained through M. Vilmorin; and,being of small size, it would appear to be a most desirabletree for a suburban garden, or to represent the Europeandivision of the genus Quercus in a miniature arboretum.

^ 5. Q, -E'sculus L. The Esculus, or Italian , Oak.

Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 14-14.; Willd., No. 63. \ Ait., No. 22. j N. Du Ham., 7. p. 176.; Rees’sCycl., No. 70.

Synonymes. Ph&gus Esculus, mas et’fcem, Dalech. Hist 5.; Chene grec, Fr.

Derivation. From esca, food. The Esculus of the classics is by some taken for the beech tree; butthe Q. Esculus of Linmeus is now believed to be the Ph&gos of Theophrastus, which be expresslysays is a kind of oak.

Engravings. Our figs. 1699. and.1700.; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume.

Spec. Char., 8fc. Leaves ovate-oblong, sinuated, smooth; paler beneath ;segments bluntish, somewhat angular at the base. Fruit nearly sessile.Calyx scaly, hemispherical. (Smith.) A native of the south of Europe;from 20 ft. to 30 ft. high. Cultivated by Miller, in 1739; and flowering inMay. Acorns have been produced on the trees of Q. jE'sculus in the Hor-