CHAP. CV. CORYLA‘CEA. QUE’RCUS. 1781 
views of thesame trunk. A smaller tree, growing near this one, and repre- 
sented by 4, has the junction of the trunks nearer the ground. Another spe- 
cimen, growing near a farm-house, is represented by d; and a fourth one by c. 
All these oaks are within a short distance of each other; and Mr. Bree thinks 
the trunks were probably joined artificially by some one who had a fancy for 
such experiments. They are all of the species Q. pedunculata. The figures 
are to a scale of Lin. to 12 ft. 
Oaks conjoined with other Trees. The oak being a tree of great duration, 
and its trunk, in the course of years, spreading wider than that of many 
trees, not unfrequently grows round the stems of trees which grow close by 
it; or, its trunk becoming hollow, and the head being broken off by storms, 
other trees frequently spring up within it, and produce a flourishing head en- 
cased with an oak trunk. Haden: we have an oak conjoined with an ash near 
the lake at Welbeck, figured in Rooke’s Remarkable Oaks, &c., p|.6. This ash 
grows out of the bottom of a large oak, “to which it adheres to the height of 
‘about 6 ft.; it there separates, and leaves a space of nearly 3ft. in height. 
Here, as if unwilling to be disunited, it stretches out an arm, or little protube- 
Tance, to coalesce again with the fostering oak.” At Bearwood, near Reading, 
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