1888

ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM

PART lit

be rendered obvious at a glance,by inspecting the line of oaks atMessrs. Loddiges’s, where thereare three trees, marked Q. palus-tris, Q. Banisteri, and Q. montana,(all of which are the Q. palustris ofMichaux,) which are above 30 ft.high, which is several feet higherthan all the others, with the singleexception of Q. ambigua. A tree(.fig. 1761.) of this species in the

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Horticultural Society’s Garden, ft '

which had been overtopped with it ^

elms, in the manner already men- s

tinned (p. 18G4.), has lost its

leader, and has more the appear- ’ll®

ance of a stunted bush than a tree. a

It is not one third of the size of 'Nl - .fyggljl-.

those at Messrs. Loddiges’s, of one 1$

of which the tree in our last Vo- B j

lume is a portrait. The leaves are M \ j

much smaller than those of all the

other species of this section : they '

are smooth, of a pleasing green,

supported on very long petioles, and, on old trees, are very deeply laciniated.On young trees, they are much less so, as will be seen by fig. 1760. copiedfrom Michaux’s Histoire des Chcnes, in which a is a seedling of one year old,and b a leaf from a tree two years old. The acorns are small, round, and

of winch ttie scates are closelyapplied one upon another. The

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wood, though stronger and moretenacious than that of either thered or the scarlet oaks, has the

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wood, though stronger and more

tenacious than that of either the ^ H

red or the scarlet oaks, has the M

pores still larger and more open ^

than those of either of these woods. It is used for the axles of mill-wheels, when white oak of sufficient dimensions cannot be procured; andsometimes, though rarely, it is made into staves for casks for dry goods.For small groups, and especially in moist rich soil, we cannot sufficientlyrecommend this tree. Its growth is rapid, and the disposition of its branchesis singularly graceful from its infancy upwards. A few years ago, there werea great many trees of it in the Leyton Nursery, which were taken up andburnt for want of sale. The most beautiful small specimen we know is in the