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ARDOKKTUM AND FUUTICETUM. 





'Qitircits Cdrris T.iicomhrhn;\ cHspa, in the Exeter Nursery. 

 Height 63 ft. ; girt of tlie trunk i) ft. ; diameter of the liead 48 ft. 



with the exception of the Lucombe and the Fulham oaks, and the pendu- 

 lous-branched Turkey oak, we think that the varieties of Q. Cerris are 

 scarcely worth keeping apart, since etiual!}' interesting ones may at any time 

 l)e obtained by raising a number of plants from the acorn. In proof of this 

 we mav refer to any plantation containing a number of Turkey oaks which 

 liave been raised from seed ; and one that just occiu's to us is a small 

 avenue of these trees in the Zoological Gartlens in the Regent's Park. 

 J)cscriptio7i, ^-c. The Turkey oak is a free-growing tree, with straight vigo- 

 rous in-anches, which take a much more upright direction than those of the 

 liritish or conunon oak ; and both branches and twigs arc, in every stage of 

 the tree's growth, wholly free from the tortuous character of those of that 

 species. The trunk is also straighter ; but the branches, at their junction 



