1888 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM PART III 
be rendered obvious at a glance, 
by inspecting the line of oaks at 
Messrs. Loddiges’s, where there 
are three trees, marked Q. palis- 
tris, Q. Banisteri, and Q. montana, 
(all of which are the Q. palistris of 
Michaux,) which are above 30 ft. 
high, which is several feet higher 
than all the others, with the single 
exception of Q. ambigua. A tree 
(fig. 1761.) of this species in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
which had been overtopped with 
elms, in the manner already men- 
tioned (p. 1864.}, has lost its 
leader, and has more the appear- 
ance of a stunted bush than a tree. 
It is not one third of the size of 
those at Messrs. Loddiges’s, of one 
of which the tree in our last Vo- 
lume is a portrait. The leaves are 
much smaller than those of all the 
other species of this section: they 
are smooth, of a pleasing green, 
supported on very long petioles, and, on old trees, are very deeply laciniated. 
On young trees, they are much less so, as will be seen by fig. 1760. copied 
from Michaux’s Histoire des Chénes, in which a is a seedling of one year old, 
and 4 a leaf from a tree two years old. The acorns are small, round, and 
contained in flat shallow cups, 1561 
of which the scales are closely y 
applied one upon another. The : 
wood, though stronger and more 
tenacious than that of either the © 
red or the scarlet oaks, has the 
pores still larger and more open 
than those of either of these woods. It is used for the axles of mill- 
wheels, when white oak of sufficient dimensions cannot be procured ; and 
sometimes, though rarely, it is made into staves for casks for dry goods. 
For small groups, and especially in moist rich soil, we cannot sufficiently 
recommend this tree. Its arth is rapid, and the disposition of its branches 
is singularly graceful from its infancy upwards. A few years ago, there were 
a great many trees of it in the Leyton Nursery, which were taken up and 
burnt for want of sale. The most beautiful small specimen we know is in the 
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