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8ILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. cupulifer^. 



the Physic Garden at Chelsea, near London, in 1739,^ and, although now rare in European plantations,^ 

 the Live Oak is said to have produced fruit in the King's Garden at Kew early in the present century.^ 

 In the southern United States its beauty has been appreciated for more than two hundred years ; and 

 noble single specimens or avenues of Live Oaks guarding the approaches to the stately colonial man- 

 sions of Carolina and Georgia, and unsurpassed in majesty by planted trees of any other kind, testify 

 to the ornamental value of this species, which surpasses the other Oaks of North America in grandeur 

 of port, beauty of outline, and solidity of trunk and branches.* No American Oak grows more rapidly^ 

 or is more easily transplanted, and its general use as a shade-tree, with the scarcely less beautiful Laurel 

 Oak, in the streets of southern cities, gives them their greatest charm. 



1 Loudon, Arh. Brit. iii. 1918, f. 1802, 1803, t. « The log specimen in the Jesup Collection of North American 



Woods 



^ Nicholson, Garden and Forest, i. 136. 



8 Cobbett, Woodlands, No. 446. obtained from northern Florida, is eighteen inches in diameter 



4 Sargent, Garden and Forest, i. 476, f . 74. — Lamborn, Garden inside the bark, with sixteen layers of sapwood, and is only forty- 



and Forest, v. 483, f . 82, 83. — Garden and Forest, vi. 2, f . 2. four years old. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate CCCXCIV. Quercus Virginiana 



1. A flowering branch, natural size. 



2. A staminate flower, enlarged. 



3. A stamen, enlarged. 



4. A pistillate inflorescence, enlarged. 



5. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



6. A germinating nut, natural size. 



7. A leaf, natural si 



8. A winter-bud, natural size. 



Plate CCCXCV. Quercus Virginla^na. 



1. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



2. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



3. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



4. End of a young shoot with small oblong lanceolate leaves 



5. A fruit, natural size. 



6. A fruit, natural size. 



Plate CCCXCVL Quercus Virginiana, var. minima. 



1. A fruiting plant, natural size. 



2. Portion of a plant, showing the large obovate lower leaves and the small 



oblong-lanceolate upper leaves, natural size. 



3. A leaf, natural size. 



4. A leaf, natural size. 



6. A peduncle and cups, natural size. 



