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from five to ten years old ; the bark is corky or warty, the corky sub- 

 stance standing up in rows along the young branches. This oak is 

 often planted, with good effect, to ornament lawns. On low, rich 

 lands it becomes a very large tree. 



The Chestnut Oak. 



The leaves of this oak are very much like those of the chestnut 

 tree and without the acorns are easily mistaken for them; hence the 



name, the chestnut 

 oak. The other oak 

 leaves had lobes, but 

 here there are only 

 rounded teeth, unlike 

 the leaf of the chest- 

 nut, which has sharp 

 pointed teeth. On 

 one leaf the teeth are 

 a little longer than 

 on the other, but they 

 are rounded in the 

 same way, point in 

 the same direction, 

 and do not become 

 lobes. If the gener- 

 al shape of the leaf 

 is like this and the 

 teeth are rounded, and a hand glass 

 shows a fine down on the lower surface 

 of the thick leaf, it is a chestnut oak. But to be sure, see if the acorn 

 is like the one in the engraving, very long, and the cups with hard 

 scales. The leaf is from five to nine inches in length and the rib at 

 the center is bright yellow, like the stem of the leaf. The bark of the 

 chestnut oak is black, having ridges and deep furrows which cannot 

 be mistaken. The branches do not look so strong as those of the 

 other two oaks and are placed more irregularly. Since the leaves are 

 so large and so little cut the tree has a full and heavy appearance, 

 making it less graceful than many other oaks, It it found on rocky 

 banks anc] hillsides, 



3. — Chestnut 

 oak. 



