CHAP. CV. CORYLA‘CEX. QUE’RCUS. 1735 
countries where the oak abounds, similar varieties might be detected ; 
and, farther, that acorns collected from these varieties would occa- 
sionally, if not frequently, produce trees with the same character 
of foliage; in the same manner as acorns from a weeping oak will 
produce weeping trees, or from a fastigiate oak fastigiate trees. 
Fig. 1570., to a scale of 1 in. to 4 ft., is a specimen of an oak of this 
kind, recently brought into notice by Messrs. Fennessey and Son, 
nurserymen, Waterford. It came up from seed accidentally, about 
1820; and the parent tree was, in 1836, 15 ft. high. Some of the 
_ leaves are quite entire, and others deeply and curiously cut, as exhi- 
bited in fig. 1571., drawn of the natural size. 
¥ Q. p. 6 foliis variegatis Lodd. Cat. has the leaves variegated with white, 
with some streaks of red; and, when finely grown, is a very orna- 
mental tree. We have never seen it worth looking at in the neigh- 
bourhood of London ; but at White Knights there are very handsome 
specimens, between 20 ft. and 30 ft. high. 
+ Q. p. 7 purpirea, Q. purpirea Lodd. Cat., has the young shoots, and the 
footstalks of the leaves, tinged with purple. The young leaves, 
when they first come out, are almost entirely purple, and are very 
striking. There are plants of this variety at Messrs, Loddiges’s, and 
a young tree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
¥ Q. p. 8 Hodginsii Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. — From the plants of this variety 
in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and at Messrs. Loddiges’s, it 
appears to be of a more fastigiate habit of growth, and to have much 
smaller leaves, than the species. 
* Q. p. 9 délcis. Chéne & Feuilles caduques presque sessiles, Dralet, —This variety exists in 
rance, on the borders of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Departments du Gard, de Vau- 
cluse, des Bouches de Rhone, and du Var. The leaves are divided into seven very open 
lobes, of which the middle one is the largest. The acorns are large, and, according to 
M. Dralet, very handsome; he adds that they are sweeter than those of a variety of Q. 
Tex, which, from his description, appears to be Q. I. Balldta. M. Dralet mentions two 
forms of Q. p. diilcis : one having the leaves thin, with acute lobes, and slightly downy 
beneath ; the acorns being so large as to measure 22 in. in circumference: and the other 
having coriaceous glaucous leaves, with obtuse lobes ; and the acorns rather smaller, 
and borne on peduncles ld in. in length. These two forms do not differ from the species 
in rate of growth, magnitude, or quality of the timber. M. Dralet strongly recommends 
the propagation of this variety in France, with a view to the employment of the acorns 
as food. The tree, he says, is planted in avenues, in the department des Bouches du 
Rhéne; and he adds that he gave acorns to the Botanic Garden at Toulouse in 1811, 
from which young plants were raised. (Traité de ’ Amenagement des Bois et Foréts, &c., 
suivi de Recherches sur les Chénes a Glands douz, p. 180.) Through the kindness of M. 
Vilmorin, we received some acorns of this variety in 1836, which we roasted and en- 
deavoured to eat; but we cannot recommend them from our own experience. The 
variety, however, ought by all means to be introduced. _ 
Other Varieties. The varieties of British oaks which might be selected 
from extensive woods of that tree, are without end; but, as these oaks are 
exceedingly difficult to propagate by any other method than from the acorn, 
they have been in a great measure neglected by cultivators. The time of leaf- 
ing and of dropping the leaves varies exceedingly ; some oaks retaining their 
foliage of a deep green for a month or six weeks after others ; others, after their 
leaves have withered, and become of arusset colour, retaining them through- 
out the winter, like the hornbeam and the beech. Some oaks bud at Christ- 
mas, like the Glastonbury thorn; as, for example, the Cadenham oak in 
the New Forest, near Lyndhurst, mentioned by Parkinson, and by various 
writers down to the time of Gilpin; and one, that we have heard of, in the 
Vale of Gloucester. The forms of the trees also vary: some being much 
more fastigiate than others; and the heads of some approaching to the 
globular, or rather domical, form; while the heads of others are more 
conical. The difference in the size of the acorns, and in the length of 
their footstalks, is as great as the difference in the size of the leaves, and in 
the length of their footstalks ; and wherever Q. sessiliflora is found growing 
along with Q. pedunculata, there are, or appear to be, numerous hybrids 
produced between these two kinds. The Wyre Forest, near Bewdley, con- 
tains upwards of 1200 acres, the greater part of which is the property of 
W. L. Childe, Esq., whose gardener, Mr. John Pearson, informs us that 
