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The smaller galls on the oak flowers are in an 

 early stage ; they grow to the size of red currants, 

 and then drop to the ground, the flies hatching 

 out of then? in the following spring. 



ENGLISH OAKS 



The oak foliage has now turned a soft golden 

 brown, which sheds a kind of sunlight glow over 



COMMON ENGLISH OAK. 



the landscape. The squirrels are extremely busy 

 collecting and storing acorns for their winter food ; 

 and so carefully do they secure not only acorns 

 but nuts and beechmast, that in a week or two 

 it will be almost impossible to find any woodland 

 fruits beneath the trees. 



