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INARCHING OF OAK TREES. By JoHN S. WRIGHT. 
On the western border of what is known as Cypress Swamp, or Pond, 
ip the “pocket” of Knox county, and at the side of the wagon road, about 
one-third of a mile east of the locks at the Wabash Rapids, I observed last 
September an interesting case of natural grafting of forest trees. The 
united trees were, judging from the leaves, there being no fruit obtain- 
able, specimens of Swamp, Overcup or Post Oak, Quercus lyrata Walt. 
The trees stood close together, so close in fact that a careful examina- 
tion only showed that the trunks were actually separate at the ground. 
The larger of the trees was about eighteen inches in diameter one foot 
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