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equally useful as the English Oak for ay purpose 
whatever. 
The general decrease of timber in this island,— 
the many waste lands unemployed,—and the bill 
now proposed to be brought into parliament, by 
that great friend to Agriculture Sir John Sinclair, 
will be my apology for troubling the Society with 
this paper; for the planter ought certainly to be 
furnished with every advantage, and every possible 
inducement should be held out to him, for promot- 
ing so useful and so national a work. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE, 
A.A, a a Leaf, acorn, and prickly cup of the Iron, 
Wainscoat, or Turkey Oak. 
B. B. 6.6. Leaf, acorn, and prickly cup of the Quercus 
Cerris of Linneus—fol. oblongis, lyrato-pinnatifidis; lacinis 
transversis, acutts, subtus subtomentosis ; calyce hispido; 
glande minore, Small-aeorned Spanish Oak with prickly 
cups, 
