chap. cv.

coryla'cete. que'rcus.

1861

performed in the whip manner, with as great certainty of success as in graft-ing common fruit trees. Some nurserymen find the new evergreen varietiesof the new Lucombe oak to take by grafting more readily than the old Lu-combe oak; and others prefer stocks of Q. pedunculata to those of Q. Cerris.In the nursery, the plants ought to be annually removed; because scarcelyany species of oak suffers so much from transplanting as the different varietiesof Q. Cerris. Purchasers of these varieties, therefore, would do well tobespeak them from the grower a year before they require them to be takenup; or to purchase them in spring, on condition of their being immediatelytaken up, pruned, and replanted, preparatory to their being taken up and re-moved to their final destination in the succeeding autumn. It is much betterfor a purchaser to pay double the usual price for plants properly treated inthe nursery, than to have one half, or, as we have known sometimes, twothirds, of them entirely fail from nursery mismanagement.

'Statistics. In the environs of London , at York House, Twickenham, 50 years planted, it is 50 ft.high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 6 in., and of the head 20 ft.; at the Priory, at Slanmore, it is 53 ft.high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 10 in., and of the head 32 ft.; at Syon, it is 70 ft. high, the dia-meter of the trunk 2ft. 8in., and that of the head 73 ft. ; at Muswell Hill, 72 years old, it is 62 ft.high, the diameter of the head 50 ft. — South of London. In Cornwall , at Carclew, it is 74 ft. high,the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 9 in., apdofthe head 64 ft. In Devonshire, atMamhead, there are threetrees, the largest of which is 100 ft. high, and the others 90 ft. and 80 ft. respectively; the circum-ference of the trunk of the first is 12 ft., of the second 15 ft, and of the third 14 ft 1 in.; the probableage of these trees is between 70 and 80 years, having been planted by Mr. Lucombe : at Killerton,34 years planted, it is 67 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 43 ft. : at BystockPark, 18 years planted, it is 50 ft. high ; and at Endsleigh Cottage, 15 years planted, it is 40 ft. high.In Dorsetshire , at Melbury Park, 44 years planted, it is 70ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft.9in,, and of the head 40ft. In the Isle of Wight, in Wilkins’s Nursery, SO years planted, it is 40 ft.high. In Kent, at Cobham Hall, 13 years planted, it is 36 ft, high. In Somersetshire , at Nettle-combe, 68 years planted, it is 74 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft, and that of the head 71 ft.In Surrey , at Deepdene, 10 years planted, it is 24 ft. high.; at Nutfield Blechingley, 21 years planted,it is 34 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk is 2ft. 10in., and of the head 27 ft. In Wiltshire , atLongleat, 50 years planted, the species is 60 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6in., and of the head*6 ft.; at Longford Castle, it is 60 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 6 in., and of the head 66 ft.—Northof London. In Bedfordshire, at Woburn Abbey , specimens 24 years old are from 30 ft. to 40 ft. high ;at Ampthill, 85 years planted, it is 80 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and of the head 50 ft. InDenbighshire, at Kinmel Park, 20 years planted, It is 32 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 1 ft, and of thehead 18 ft.; at Eaton Hall, 14 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. In Lancashire , at Latham House,{l years planted, it is 37 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 16 in., and of the head 32 ft. In Leices-tershire , at Whitton House, 30 years planted, it is 46 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 10 in.in Nottinghamshire , at Clumber Park, it is 53 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk2ft. 10in., and of“" e “ ea d 52 ft In Northamptonshire , at Wakefield Lodge, 10 years planted, it is 26 ft. high. InShropshire , at Hardwicke Grange, 10 years planted, it is 32 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8in.in Warwickshire , at Allesley, 26 years planted, it is 4S ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 17 in.; atopnngfield, SO years planted, it is 34 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 11 in. In Worcestershire ,at Lroome, it is 80 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 9 in., and of the head 80 ft. In Yorkshire , at«« Castle, 16 years planted, it is 34 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk lOin., and of the headwit.; at Knedlington, 7 years from the acorn, it is 12 ft. high.—In Scotland . In the environs of Edin-iwff 1 ’ c 1 ^°P etoun House,it is 50ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft. 3in., and of the headtt v ® out ^ Edinburgh . In Renfrewshire, at Erskine House, 25 years planted, it is 36 ft. high,ge diameter of the trunk 11 in. — North of Edinburgh . In Cromarty, at Coul, 20 years planted, it isif- diameter of the trunk 13 in., and of the head 30 ft. In Ross-shire, at Brahan Castle,

it is v>0 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and that of the head 35 ft.—In Ireland . In theenvirons of Dublin , in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, 35 years planted, it is 35 ft. high, thediameter of the trunk 1ft. 4 in., and of the head 25 ft.; at Cypress Grove, it is 70 ft. high, thedia-ineter °f^the trunk 2ft., and of the head 50ft. In King’s county, at Charleville Forest, 10 years^ 24ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 14 ft. In Fermanagh ,head56ft Ce ^ our ^ ^ years planted, it is 70ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft. 6in., and of the

Foreign Countries. In France , in Brittany, at Barres, 12 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. Inirimt o e ^’ at Gottingen , in the Botanic Garden, 25 years old, it is 30ft. high, the diameter of thene vk*’ t * ie 20 ft. In Bavaria, in the Botanic Garden, Munich , 20 years old, it is

k>u lugh the diameter of the trunk 6in. In Austria, at Vienna , in the University Botanic, !v en > 20 years old, it is 25 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 9 in., and of the head 12 ft.; at Bruck■urn h- u i a> ^ y ears old, it is 36ft. high. In Prussia, at Berlin , at Sans Souci, 50 years old, it isi diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 18 ft. In Italy, in Lombardy, at Monza ,

) ears planted, it is 35 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk I ft. 8 in., and of the head 22 ft.

Commercial Statistics. Acorns, in London , 10s. per bushel; one year’s seed-hngplants,.10s. per thousand; two years’seedlings, 50s. per thousand; twoyears seedlings, one year transplanted, 20s. per thousand. The Lucombeand Fulham oaks, from 2s. 6 d. to 3s. 6 d. each. Q. Cerris, at Bollwyller, is 2rancs a plant; at New York , 50 cents, and the Lucombe oak 1 dollar.

2 7. Q. .22'gilops L. The jEgilops, or Valonia, Oak .

Identification. Lin. S[>. PI., 1414.; Willd., No. 61.; Ait., No. 20.; Mill. 1c., t. 215.; Oliv. Trav.,W B ' e<1 '’ voL a P- -M.; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 175.; Smith in Rees’s C S cl., No. 58.

'jnonymes. Q, orientalis, &c., Town. Co-r., 40.; iE'gilops sive Cerrus mas C. Bauhin, Secondal;

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