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remarkably the case with the celebrated oak at Lord Cowper's [shown in fig. 
1480. in p.1741.]. This tree, above a century ago, was well known as the 
Great Oak at Pan- 1636 
shanger. There is 
also a beautiful tree 
(fig. 1636.), of the 
same description, at 
Lord Darnley’s seat 
at Cobham, which, 
being protected from 
the depredations of 
cattle, enjoys the 
most perfect free- 
dom of growth, ex- 
tending its latitude 
of boughs in every 
direction,and droop- 
ing its clustered fo- 
liage to the very 
ground.” (Strudé in 
Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 
i. p. 42.) 
The Spray of the Oak has been described and illustrated by Gilpin, with his 
usual felicity. “ In the spray of trees,” he remarks, “nature seems to observe 
oae simple principle; which is, that the mode of growth in the spray corre- 
sponds exactly with that of the larger branches, of which, indeed, the spray is 
the origin. Thus, the oak divides his boughs from the 
stem more horizontally than most other deciduous trees. 
The spray makes exactly, in minia- 
ture, the same appearance. — It 
breaks out in right angles, or in 
angles that are nearly so, forming 
its shoots commonly in short lines 
[see figs. 1637. and 1638., from Gil- 
pin; and jig. 1639., from Strutt]; 
the second year’s shoot usually 
taking some direction contrary to 
that of the.first. Thus the ru- ” Rani 
diments are laid of that abrupt mode of ramification, for which the oak is 
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