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worth Nursery, which has been 40 years planted, being only 
from 22 ft. to 25ft. high, with a trunk 1 ft. 8in. in circum- /\ 
ference at 5 ft. from the ground. Two trees inthe Hammer- ¢ 
smith Nursery, about the same age, are rather higher. Trees (1 
in nurseries, however, are seldom fair specimens, as they 
are kept there for the purpose of supplying scions for bud- 
ding or grafting. The tree in the Horticultural Society’s 1809 
Garden has attained the height of 12 ft, in 10 years; and one at Ham 
House was, in 1834, 42 ft. high; the diameter of the trunk | ft. 6 in., and 
of the head 18 ft. Neither this tree nor that in the Sawbridgeworth Nursery, 
nor any other that we have heard of, has yet flowered. 
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* 41. Q. uy’pripa NA‘NA. The dwarf hybrid Oak. 
Synonymes. Q. b¥brida Lodd. Cat., 1836; Q. “a hybrid between Q. pedunculata and Q@. J“‘lex, in 
the Horticultural Society’s Garden ;” Q. humilis Hort. ; @,. nana Hort. 
Engravings. Our figs. 1810. and 1811. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves ovate or oblong, obtusely dentate, smooth, and of the 
same colour on both sides. Footstalks short. Found about 1825, in a bed of 
seedling oaks in the Bristol Nursery, where the original plant, in May, 1837, 
was between 8 ft. and 9 ft. high, with a trunk 8 in. in circumference at 1 ft. 
from the ground. Propagated by grafting on the common oak. It isa 
1810 1811 
decidedly subevergreen bush, and not a tree; whence has arisen the 
popular name of himilis. In summer, the leaves, at a distance, bear a 
considerable resemblance to those of the common oak; but, on a nearer 
inspection, they appear as in fig. 1811. or in jig, 1810.: the first from the 
specimen tree in the Hackney arboretum, and the second from the arboretum 
at Milford. Towards the autumn, those shoots which have continued 
growing, exhibit leaves on their extremities so exactly like those of Q. 
Tarneri, that it is altogether impossible to make any distinction between 
them ‘This is so very strikingly the case 1812 
at Messrs. Loddiges’s, that, if it were not 
from the totally different habit of Q. 
Tiarneri and Q. hybrida nana, we should, 
from the appearance of the leaves, which 
remain on, in both species, at the points 
of the shoots, after all the others have 
dropped off, consider them to be the same 
species. Fig. 1812. exhibits leaves taken 
from the extremities of the shoots, in different parts of the same plant, 
in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, in May, 1837. 
