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men in London, at one guinea each; one of them 
was grafted upon a different kind of poplar, the 
other was upon its own roots. I placed them near 
together, in a dry situation, in a light soil, under- 
neath which was a stratum of gravel. The grafted 
one made very little progress; I therefore converted 
it into a stool, and raised several plants from it. 
The other, which is upon its own roots, has made a 
rapid progress, being, at least, fifty-one feet high, 
and two feet nine inches in the girth. It produces 
annually a great number of suckers, with which I 
have supplied many of my friends.* 
The third is Tue Inon, Watnscoat, or Tur- 
KEY Oak; so called by Mr. Luccomb. I have 
long been in doubt what species of oak this really 
was; but one of mine having borne some acorns 
this year, has ascertained it to be a variety of the 
Quercus Cerris; and it appears to me to be either a 
nondescript; or what Mr. Aiton, in his Hortus Kew- 
vensis, calls, frondosa: foliis ovato-oblongis, leviter 
sinuatis, planiusculis: common Turkey Oak Tree. 
Tt is what Mr. Luccomb generally grafts his Luc- 
comb Oaks upon; and the plants certainly grow 
faster, when grafted upon this oak, than upon any 
* There is another poplar, of very swift growth, which 
makes a very handsome tree, and will flourish in any si- 
tuation or soil. It is the Populus cordifolia canadensis, or 
Berry-bearing Poplar, as it is commonly called, This tree 
will grow freely from cuttings, 
