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MGs 4 
Quércus Cérris Lucombeana crispa, in the Exeter Nursery. 
Height 63 ft. ; girt of the trunk 9 ft. ; diameter of the head 48 ft. 
with the exception of the Lucombe and the Fulham oaks, and the pendu- 
lous-branched Turkey oak, we think that the varieties of Q. Cérris are 
scarcely worth keeping apart, since equally interesting ones may at any time 
be obtained by raising a number of plants from the acorn. In proof of this 
we may refer to any plantation containing a number of Turkey oaks which 
have been raised from seed; and one that just occurs to us is a small 
avenue of these trees in the Zoological Gardens in the Regent’s Park. 
_ Description, §c. The Turkey oak is a free-growing tree, with straight vigo- 
rous branches, which take a much more upright direction than those of the 
British or common oak ; and both branches and twigs are, in every stage of 
the tree’s growth, wholly free from the tortuous character of those of that 
species. The trunk is also straighter; but the branches, at their.junction 
