I 924- 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



worth Nursery, which has licen iO years planted, being only 

 from 22t\. to 25 ft. hi>;h, with a trunk 1 ft. Sin. in circuni- J\ 

 fcrcnte at 5 ft. from tlie ground. Two trees in the Hammer- ^lU I 

 .smith Nursery, about tiie same age, are rather higher. Trees ^yl ^^ .., 

 in nurseries, however, are seldom fair specimens, as they - ''* 

 are kept there for the purpose of supplying scions for bud- 

 ding or grafting. The tree in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden has attained the height of 12ft. in 10 years; and one at Ham 

 House was, in 1834, 42 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. G in., and 

 of the head 18 ft. Neither this tree nor that in the Sawbridgeworth Nursery, 

 nor any otiier that we have heard of, has yet flowered. 



'i 41. Q. iiy'brida na'na. The dwarf hybrid Oak. 



Si/noni/mes. (. _ 



the Horticultural Society's Garden ;" Q. hOmilit Hort. 

 Engravings. Out jigs- 1810. and 1811. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate or oblong, obtusely dentate, smooth, and of the 

 same colour on both sides. P'ootstalks short. Found about 1825, in a bed of 

 seedling oaks in the Bristol Nursery, where the original plant, in May, 1837, 

 was between 8 ft. and 9 ft. high, with a trunk 8 in. in circumference at 1 ft. 

 iVom the ground. Propagated by grafting on the common oak. It is a 



Q. hjbrida Lodit. Cat., 1836; Q. "a hybrid between Q. peduncul&ta and U. /'lex, 

 U. nana Hurt. 



decidedly subevergreen bush, and not a tree ; whence has arisen the 



popular name of humilis. In summer, the leaves, at a distance, bear a 



consitlerable resemblance to those of the common oak ; but, on a nearer 



inspection, they appear as in_;?i^. 181 1, or in Jig. 1810.: the first from the 



specimen tree in the Hackney arboretum, and tlie second from the arboretum 



at Milford. Towards the autumn, those shoots whicii have continued 



growing, exhibit leaves on their extremities so exactly like those of Q. 



Turnen, that it is altogether impossible to make any distinction between 



them This is so very strikingly the case j v< 1 2 



at Messrs. Loddiges's, that, if it were not 



from the totally different habit of Q.. 



Turners and Q. hybrida nana, we should, 



from the appearance of the leaves, which 



remain on, in both species, at the points j^^, 



of the shoots, after all the others have -^ 



dropped off, consider them to be the same 



species. Ftp,. 1812. exhibits leaves taken 



from the extremities of the shoots, in different parts of the same plant, 



in the Horticultural Societv's Garden, in May, 1837. 



