168 EVERGREENS. 



QUERCUS GLABRA. Thunberg. 



A tree indigenous to Japan, with large lanceolate 

 leaves, glabrous on both sides, and with slightly 

 spreading branches. It is considered too tender for 

 our climate ; but in the past autumn we saw a fine 

 example, three feet high, in the grounds of Lord 

 Burlington, Holkar Hall, near Lancaster, which ap- 

 peared to be very hardy. 



QUERCUS ILEX. Linnceus. 

 (Evergreen Oak.) 



No tree is superior to this for planting on the sea 

 coast, whether for shelter or ornament ; and, indeed, 

 in any exposed situation, where little success attends 

 the attempt to establish other trees, the evergreen 

 oak will succeed, and it has the additional valuable 

 properties, of being both a rapid grower, and a hand- 

 some tree. It also bears the smoke and impure atmo- 

 sphere of towns much better than most other ever- 

 greens : yet, with all its good qualities, it is only 

 sparingly used, and is rarely met with, except as an 

 occasional specimen among ornamental evergreens in 

 pleasure grounds. This has, no doubt, arisen from the 

 many failures usually experienced in transplanting it. 

 That no evergreen removes under the usual system 

 with greater risk, we are well aware. Yet as we have 

 previously shown, success may be attained even with 

 large plants ; but, of course, such measures could 

 only be adopted with a limited number. TV hen the 



