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either case transplant out into lines during tlie tirst winter after sowing, spacing tlie 

 young oaks 5 inches in the lines and setting the lines 12 inches apart. They may stand 

 thus for three or four years according to size of transplant required. Specially large and 

 strong transplants are made by transplanting once or twice in the nursery and spacing 

 the trees then 8 in. x 18 in. It takes five or six years to produce a full grown oak 

 transplant 7 or S feet high. Transplants that are obtained by digging out young trees 

 from existing woods are, as may l)e observed any day, of doulitful success. And the 

 jjollard tree produced by this method is never a sound tree. 



" Oaks should Ix' planted during July or August as slender saplings .j or feet high, 

 with a good ball of fibrous roots. They should, for this pur])ose, have been twice 

 ti-ansplanted in the nursery. Any side Ijranches that exist in the nursery tree should be 

 taken off with a smooth cut close to the stem. When tlie planted tree shoots, rub ofi^ all 

 side sprouts and allow only two or three branches at the crown of the tree during the 

 first year. The second year is often the most trying for oak trarsplauts, so that the 

 tree's store of food material should be husljanded for that year Viy checking a too 

 exuberant growth during tlie first year. If necessary, water during the first summer. 



" The oak in Eurojae is scarcely ever planted pure. It is usually mixed with beech 

 and more rarely horn-ljeam or pine.' 



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The Major Oak, 



U 8 d ; L 7, 8, 19, 29 b. See photo, also a photo of the Major Oak, the 

 largest in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England ; it can hold sixteen 

 persons in its hollow trunk. 



S. Q. Suber, L. The " Cork Oak." Fig. Kotschy. 



This is the tree whose furrowed bark yields the cork of commerce. I 

 would invite attention to an illustrated article on this oak I w^rote for the 

 Gnzette for February, 1902. 



See also the article "Cork Oak' by Dr. J. D. Jone.s, in Bulletin No. 11, 

 Department of Agriculture, U.S.A. (Division of Forestry.) 



It is an evergreen tree and it is well adapted to our coastal districts. I 

 do not see wliy w^e should not grow all the cork we require. 



