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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
evergreen; though the leaves, after withering, generally remain on 
the tree through a great part of the winter. However slight the 
difference may be between these subvarieties, those who collect 
oaks cannot do wrong in procuring plants of each of them; all of 
them forming trees of free growth, and of very great beauty, as may 
be seen by the speimens referred to in the arboretum of Messrs. 
Loddiges. 
** Foliage subevergreen. Leaves dentate. Acorns with bristly Cups. 
The leaves remain on the tree through a great part of the winter, retain- 
ing their vitality and greenness. In mild winters, the leaves do 
not begin to drop till March or April; and even in severe winters, 
a part of them, on the sheltered side of the tree, continue green till 
near the end of that month. 
¥ Q. C. 8 fulhaménsis; Q. C. dentata Wats. Dend, Brit., t. 93.; Q. C. 
hybrida var. dentata Swt. The Fulham Oak. See fig. 1710., and 
the plates of this tree in our last Volume.— 
Leaves alternate, ovate-elliptic, largely dentated; @ 
the dents obtuse-angular, their sides excurved, and 
their vertices shortly mucronate. (Wats.) This 
is a fine broad-leaved subevergreen variety, of 
which there is a magnificent specimen in the Ful- 
ham Nursery. The plates of the Fulham oak in our 
last Volume are portraits of this tree; the one & 
taken in November, 1836, and the other on May S3 
1.1837. It is 75ft.high; the diameter of the 
space covered by the branches 54ft., and the 
diameter of the trunk, at 3 ft. from the ground, @ 
3ft.10in. There is a tree of the same variety || 
Exeter Nursery), when he was gardener at Mam- 3° 1710 
of which portraits are given in our last Volume, which strongly dis- 
play the characteristic difference between the two trees. The age 
and origin of the Fulham oak are unknown; but Mr. Smithers, an 
old man who has been employed in.the Fulham Nursery from his 
youth, and who remembers the tree above 45 years, says that 
it always went by the name of the Fulham oak, and that he under- 
stood it to have been raised there from seed. We have examined 
the tree at its collar, and down to its main roots, several feet under 
ground ; and, from the uniform texture, and thick corky character 
of the bark, we feel satisfied that it is not a grafted tree. In fine 
seasons, this variety produces abundance of acorns, from which many 
