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inclies in girth. As indicating tlie rate of growtL at TortwortE^ 

 it may be mentioned that in 19UT this tree girthed 1 foot 11 inches. 

 Quercus Kelloggii is a handsome oak from Oregon and California, 

 represented here by two fine specimens, one 4 feet 5 inches, the 

 other 4 feet in girth of trunk. Sown in 18T9, they are now 50 

 to 60 feet high, and growing rapidly. There is a smaller tree 

 at Kew from w^hose acorns young trees have been raised. This. 

 interesting tree appears to represent the red oaks in Western 

 North America, having similarly large, deeply lobed leaves, and 

 turning a fine red colour in autumn. Other well-g-rown American. 



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high, and over 3 feet in girlli of trunk. There is a clump of the 

 small-growing Q. ilicijolia (syu. Q. Banisteri), an oak wliicli pro- 

 duces amazing crops of acorns and kas on that account been 

 recommended for pheasant covert. Q. alba, the common white 

 oak of the Eastern United States, of which some noble specimens 

 can be seen in the Arnold Arboretum and other suburbs of 



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cannot 



apparently be made to succeed in the British Isles. Lord Ducie 

 has a tree believed to be the largest in the Kingdom, but it is 

 only about 20 feet high and is chiefly remarkable at Tortworth 

 for an obvious lack of vigour amidst so much abounding health. 



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has a trunk girthing 6 feet 9 inches, and there is one of Q. Mir- 

 becku 6 feet 3 inches in girth. Lord Ducie finds that this oak 

 grows twice as fast in sand and clay as it does on limestone. 

 Ihere is an interesting hybrid here between Q. Toza, a South 



European species with woolly leaves and young shoots, and our 



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out 28 feet high. 



foUa" was lo 



J Lord Ducie as " ^ 



of the numerous forms of Q 



one 



. .J , V- l-usitanica. The Valouia oak, Q- 



Acgilaps, remarkable for its very large acorns and for the 



Cupuhferae.— A few notes may be given appropriately here to 

 ether members of the Natural Order CupvUferae. Th^re is no 

 tree at iortworth with a more dainty appearance than Nothofa- 

 gus obhqua,^ one of the "beeches" from the southern part of 



oontli America. Twr. cT^no.',^.^^^ • x i. _ n .. ■. .^^ - ^ 



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.nnrnvlf %T''q? f^f'\¥j Pyramidal tree of perfect shape, 

 ar^th^W^^f ^'Vy^}\ ^"^^ ^^^^ ^1^^ fo/ about G feet 

 had nrevfo;,ji ^"^ ^^^^ ^^^'^ ^^ ^"■*^- ^^^^^ong^ this tree 



rL^ve bocr^l rAr V''t -'"^ "^T *^^^ ''^''' ^* ^«--er appears 

 vrl !i. X "^"^ established m gardens, and there is still a t ns.i 

 ^ility that a recurrence of frosts Ukethor of February 1895' 



ry:"LtVtat:;' • ^""'^^' ^^ ^^^ ^-- that al prTsXt ]!t 



ou pleasing a feature m manv car/fAr^a n'^^ i 



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