cupuLiTERiE. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



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white as first the upper and then the lower surface is turned to the eye, make the Yellow Oak one of 

 the most heautiful trees of the regions in which it attains its finest development. Little known in 

 cultivation, although it is said to have been planted in England in 1822,^ the Yellow Oak is well worthy 

 of a place in the parks and pleasure-grounds of the eastern United States. 



1 Loudon, Arh. Brit. iii. 1875, f . 1637. 



