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tponh has not before been dlfcovered. About twelve years ago I purchafed two plants of 

 this poplar, from two different nurferymen in London, at one guinea each ; one of them 

 was grafted upon a dlfl'crent kind of poplar, the other was upon its o\yn foots. I placed 

 them near together, in a dry fituation, in a light foil, underneath which was a ftratum 

 of gravel. The grafted one made very little jprogrcfs ; I therefore converted it into a 

 •ftool, and raifcd fevcral plants from it. The other, which is upon its own roots, has 

 • made a rapid progrefs, being at lead fifty-one feet high, and two feet nine inches in the 

 girth. It produces annually a great number of fuckers, with which I have fupplied many 

 of my friends*. 



The third is The Iroti, Waitifcot, or Turkey Oak, fo called by Mr. Luccomb. I have 

 long been in doubt what fpecies of oak this really was ; but one of mine having borne 

 fome acorns this year, has afcertained it to be a variety of the querau cerrii ; and it ap- 

 pears to me to be either a noiidejcript, or what Mr. Aiton, in his Hortus Kewenfis, calls 

 frondoja : foliis ovato-obhngis, leviter finuatis, planiufculis : commonly, Turkey oak tree. 

 It is what Mr. Luccomb generally grafts his Luccomb oaks upon -, and the plants certainly 

 grow falter when grafted upon this 'oak than upon any other. About twenty years ago, 

 in making a colle£lion of oaks, I received feveral from A4r. Luccomb^ both of the iron 

 and the Luccomb oak ; but I foon ■ found that the iron oak overgrew all the others, and 

 *ras equally ornamental as the Englilh oak. From a branch which I have fawed off, the 

 wood appears to Be.as hard and as ponderous as the Eiiglifli oak. 



The following is an account of the fize and age of fome Iron, Luccomb, and Englifli 

 Oaks, growing in my collection at Sale : 



An iron oak, 20 yeari old — . 



Another, of the fame age — — — — 

 A Luccomb oak, of the fame age, grafted on an 



Englifh oak — 



An Englifli oak, of the fame age — — 



Another, 40 years old — — .^_ 



Another, 56 years old — • 



The following is a Copy of a Letter from Mr. Luccomb to Mr. Babington, dated New- 

 bridge, Exeter, September 17, 1795 : 



«' All I can fay of them (the iron oaks) is, that my father had a few of them as a pre- 

 fent from William Ball, Efq. of Manhead-houfe (now lord Lefburne's, near Chudleigh, 

 Devonfliire), about fifty years fitice, by the name of the iron or wainfcot oak, which ,Mr. 

 Ball received from Turkey by one of his own fliips trading there. They are the fame 

 fort which you have noticed at Hillerfdon, as my father fold fome of them to Mr. Creroy 

 about forty years fince. They have, as you obferve, a very jagged leaf, and the cup of 

 the acorn is rough Hke a bur. They are hot evergreen." 



■^ There is another psplar of very fwift growth, which rtiakes a very handfome tree, and will flouriih in 

 any fituatioi\ or foil. It is tl^e Popitlns cordifolia canadaifis, or Berry-bearing Poplar, as it is commonly 

 cai!e<i, This tree will grow freely from cuttings. 



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