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Quercus Corn's Lucombc&ni\ crispa, in the Exeter 'Nursery.Height 63 ft.; girt of the trunk 9 ft. ; diameter of the head 48 ft.

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with the exception of the Lucombe and the Fulham oaks, and the pendu-lous-branched Turkey oak, we think that the varieties of Q. Cerris arescarcely worth keeping apart, since equally interesting ones may at any timebe obtained by raising a number of plants from the acorn. In proof of thiswe may refer to any plantation containing a number of Turkey oaks whichhave been raised from seed ; and one that just occurs to us is a smallavenue of these trees in the Zoological Gardens in the Regent’s Park.Description, Sfc. The Turkey oak is a free-growing tree, with straight vigo-rous branches, which take a much more upright direction than those of theBritish or common oak ; and both branches and twigs are, in every stage ofthe tree’s growth, wholly free from the tortuous character of those of thatspecies. The trunk is also straighter; but the branches, at their junction