CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGB 



I. INTRODUCTION . t . . . . 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 OP THE TISSUES 39 

 V. THE SEEDLING AND YOUNG PLANT (continued}. 



STBUCTTTBE OP THE VASCULAE TISSUES, &c. . . 52 

 VI. THE SEEDLING AND YOUNG PLANT (continued). 



THE BUDS AND LEAVES . . . .72 



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



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



IX. THE TREE (continued). INFLORESCENCE AND 



FLOWERS FEUIT AND SEED . . . . 121 



X. OAK TIMBER ITS STRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGICAL 



PECULIARITIES . . . . .136 



XI. THE CULTIVATION OP THE OAK, AND THE DISEASES 



AND INJUEIES TO WHICH IT IS SUBJECT . . 147 



XII. RELATIONSHIPS OP THE OAKS THEIR DISTRIBUTION 



IN SPACE AND TIME .... 167 



THE OAK IN SUMMER . . ... . Frontispiece 



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



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