CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . 1 



II. THE ACORN AND ITS GERMINATION THE SEEDLING 10 



III. THE SEEDLING AND YOUNG PLANT . . .24 



IV. THE SEEDLING AND YOUNG PLANT (continued'). ITS 



SHOOT-SYSTEM DISTRIBUTION OF THE TISSUES 39 



V. THE SEEDLING AND YOUNG PLANT (continued}. 



STRUCTURE OF THE VASCULAR TISSUES, &c. . . 52 



VI. THE SEEDLING AND YOUNG PLANT (continvrd). 



THE BUDS AND LEAVE-; . . . .72 



VII. THE TREE ITS ROOT-SYSTEM . . . . 89 



VIII. THE TREE ITS SHOOT-SYSTEM . . .98 



IX. THE TREE (continued). INFLORESCENCE AND 



FLOWERS FRUIT AND SEED . . . 121 



X. OAK TIMBER ITS STRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGICAL 



PECULIARITIES . . . . .136 



XI. THE CULTIVATION OF THK OAK, AND THE DISEASES 



AND INJURIES TO WHICH IT is SUBJECT . . 147 



XII. RELATIONSHIPS OF THE OAKS THEIR DISTRIBUTION 



IN SPACE AND TIME . . . 167 



THE OAK IN SUMMER ..... Frontispiece 

 THE OAK IN WINTER . , . . To face p. 8 



