CHAP. CV. CORYLA‘CER. QUE!RCUS. 1861 
performed in the whip manner, with as great certainty of success as in graft- 
ing common fruit trees. Some nurserymen find the new evergreen varieties 
of the new Lucombe oak to take by grafting more readily than the old Lu- 
combe oak; and others prefer stocks of Q. pedunculata to those of Q. Cérris. 
In the nursery, the plants ought to be annually removed; because scarcely 
any species of oak suffers so much from transplanting as the different varieties 
of Q. Cérris. Purchasers of these varieties, therefore, would do well to 
bespeak them from the grower a year before they require them to be taken 
up; or to purchase them in spring, on condition of their being immediately 
taken up, pruned, and replanted, preparatory to their being taken up and re- 
moved to their final destination in the succeeding autumn. It is much better 
for a purchaser to pay double the usual price for plants properly treated in 
the nursery, than to have one half, or, as we have known sometimes, two 
thirds, of them entirely fail from nursery mismanagement. 
Statistics, In the environs of London, at York House, Twickenham, 50 years planted, it is 50 ft. 
high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. Gin., and of the head 20 ft.; at the Priory, at Stanmore, it is 53 ft. 
high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft, 10in., and of the head 32 ft. ; at Syon, it is 70 ft. high, the dia- 
meter of the trunk 2ft. Sin., and that of the head 73 ft.; at Muswell Hill, 72 years old, it is 62 ft. 
high, the diameter of the head 50 ft. — South of London. In Cornwall, at Carclew, it is 74 ft. high, 
the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 9 in., and of the head 64 ft. In Devonshire, at Mamhead, there are three 
trees, the largest of which is 100 ft. high, and the others 90 ft. and 80 ft. respectively ; the circum- 
ference of the trunk of the first is 12 ft., of the second 15 ft., and of the third 14 ft. Lin. ; the probable 
age of these trees is between 70 and 80 years, having been planted by Mr. Lucombe: at Killerton, 
34 years planted, it is 67 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 43ft.: at Bystock 
Park, 18 years planted, it is 50 ft. high; and at Endsleigh Cottage, 15 years planted, it is 40 ft. high. 
In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 44 years planted, it is 70ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3ft. 
9in., and of the head 40 ft. In the Isle of Wight, in Wilkins’s Nursery, 30 years planted, it is 40 ft. 
high. In Kent, at Cobham Hall, 13 years planted, it is 36ft. high. In Somersetshire, at Nettle- 
combe, 68 years planted, it is 74 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft., and that of the head 71 ft. 
In Surrey, at Deepdene, 10 years planted, it is 24 ft. high. ; at Nutfield Blechingley, 21 years planted, 
it is 34 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk is 2ft. 10in., and of the head 27 ft. In Wiltshire, at 
Longleat, 50 years planted, the species is 60 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft. 6in., and of the head 
46 ft. ; at Longford Castle, it is 60 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 6in., and of the head 66 ft.—North 
of London. In Bedfordshire, at Woburn Abbey, specimens 24 years old are from 30 ft. to 40 ft. high ; 
at Ampthill, 85 years planted, it is 80 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and of the head 50 ft. In 
Denbighshire, at Kinmel Park, 20 years planted, {t is 32 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 1 ft, and of the 
head 18 ft.; at Eaton Hall, 14 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. In Lancashire, at Latham House, 
27 years planted, it is 37 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 16in., and of the head 32ft, In Leices- 
tershire, at Whitton House, 30 years planted, it is 46 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 10 in. 
In Nottinghamshire, at Clumber Park, it is 53 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft. 10in., and of 
the head 52 ft. In Northamptonshire, at Wakefield Lodge, 10 years planted, it is 26 ft. high. In 
Shropshire, at Hardwicke Grange, 10 years planted, it is 32 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8in. 
In Warwickshire, at Allesley, 26 years planted, it is 48 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 17in.; at 
Springfield, 30 years planted, it is 34 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 11 in. In Worcestershire, 
at Croome, it is 80 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 2ft. 9 in., and of the head 80ft. In Yorkshire, at 
Ripley Castle, 16 years planted, it is 34 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 10in., and of the head 
12 ft. ; at Knedlington, 7 years from the acorn, it is 12 ft. high.—In Scotland. In the environs of Edin- 
burgh, at Hopetoun House, it is 50 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 3in., and of the head 
52 ft. South of Edinburgh. In Renfrewshire, at Erskine House, 25 years planted, it is 36 ft. high, 
the diameter of the trunk 11 in.— North of Edinburgh. In Cromarty, at Coul, 20 years planted, it is 
38 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 13in., and of the head 30 ft. In Ross-shire, at Brahan Castle, 
it is 50 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and that of the head 35 ft—In Ireland. In the 
environs of Dublin, in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, 35 years planted, it is 35 ft. high, the 
diameter of the trunk 1 ft..4in., and of the head 25 ft. ; at Cypress Grove, it is 70 ft. high, the dia- 
meter of the trunk 2ft., and of the head 50ft. In King’s county, at Charleville Forest, 10 years 
planted, it is 24ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft, and of the head 14ft. In Fermanagh, 
et Court, 38 years planted, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6in., and of the 
In Foreign Countries. In France, in Brittany, at Barres, 12 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. In 
Hanover, at Gittingen, in the Botanic Garden, 35 years old, it is 30ft. high, the diameter of the 
trunk 8 in., and of the head 20ft. In Bavaria, in the Botanic Garden, Munich, 20 years old, it is 
15ft. high, the diameter of the trunk Gin. In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic 
Garden 26 ears old, it is 25 ft. high, diameter of the trunk Qin., and of the head 12 ft.; at Briick 
on the Ley a, 50 years old, it is 36ft. high, In Prussia, at Berlin, at Sans Souci, 50 years old, it is 
40 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 18 ft. In Italy, in ery at Monza, 
24 years planted, it is 35 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk I ft. 8in., and of the head 22 
Commercial Statistics. Acorns, in London, 10s. per bushel; one year’s seed- 
ling plants, 10s. per thousand; two years’ seedlings, 50s. per thousand ; two 
years’ seedlings, one year transplanted, 20s. per thousand. The Lucombe 
and Fulham oaks, from 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. each. Q. Cérris, at Bollwyller, is 2 
francs a plant; at New York, 50 cents, and the Lucombe oak 1 dollar. 
* 7. Q. A’auors L. The Agilops, or Valonia, Oak. 
Tdenlification. Lin, Sp. Pl., 1414. Willd., No. 61.; Ait, No. 20.; Mill. Ie., t. 215,; Oliv. Trav. 
Eng. ed., vol. 2. p. 44.3; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 175. 5 Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 58. 
Synonymes. Q. orientalis, &c., Tourn. Cor., 40. 5 ’gilops sive Cérrus mas C, Bauhin, Secondat ; 
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