VARIETIES OF THE FULHAM OAK. Si 



to the tree during the winter. The tree is said to have 

 been introduced into Britain in 1735, being a native 

 of the middle and south of Europe, and the west of 

 Asia. It is of elegant appearance, and as hardy as 

 the common oak, growing vigorously in even poor 

 soil. In good land the tree attains a height of forty 

 feet in twenty years, its girth being in proportion, but 

 its more common altitude is about thirty feet in that 

 period. It is destitute of the grandeur of outline 

 and ramification of branches peculiar to the British 

 oak, generally growing with a straight trunk, like the 

 larch, large in proportion to its lateral branches. Its 

 timber is less durable than that of the common oak, 

 but it is beautifully veined, and takes a good polish. 



Its acorns ripen like those of the British oak, and 

 the mode of propagation is the same. As the Turkey 

 oak seedlings, however, are generally taller than the 

 other, it is the better course to transplant them at one 

 year of age, rather than to allow them to remain two 

 years in the seed-bed. 



The Fulham Oak. This tree is commonly supposed 

 to be a hybrid between the Turkey oak and the cork 

 tree, having been first grown in a nursery ground at Ful- 

 ham, from whence it derives its name. It was described 

 some years back as standing eighty feet high, with a 

 girth of trunk, a foot from the ground, of thirteen feet. 

 It has been freely grafted on stocks of the common, or 

 Turkey, oak, while the acorns of the original tree have 

 produced many interesting varieties, so that seedlings 

 from the original tree cannot be depended upon as 

 being the true Fulham oak. Grafting is therefore the 

 method of propagation resorted to, and as they spring 

 freely on stocks which are vigorous, they frequently 



