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Landscape Gardening 



Pin or Swamp Oak {Q. palustris), Fig. 102. — This 

 beautiful oak is only of medium size and takes the most 

 regular pyramidal form; the leaves are deeply lobed, dark 

 green in color, changing to a beautiful scarlet-crimson in 



Fig. 102. — Pin Oak (Quercus palustris). 



autumn. Its acorns are small, set in a very shallow cup, 

 and the branches stand out nearly at right angles with the 

 trunk or with age assume a drooping form. It is a tree 

 that should be more planted than it is. 



