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is rather scarce. There is a specimen in the 

 garden of John Evans. 



QUERCUS, Linnceus. Nat. Ord. Corylacese. 

 Monoecia, Polyandria, Linn. Male catkins 

 with flowers haying a 5 -cleft calyx, with 4- 

 10 stamens, and no corolla. Female flowers; 

 calyx an involucre composed of numerous 

 scales united into a cup. Fruit, an acorn. 



1. Q. ALBA, Linnmus. Leaves obovate-ob- 

 long, nearly equally pinnatifid sinuate, shining 

 green above, a little whitish beneath. Cup 

 hemispherical. Nut ovate or oblong. 

 White-oak. Native of United States. 



All the oaks are amongst the most useful 

 trees in landscape gardening. They possess 

 a great variety of forms and modes of 

 growth; different colors, shades, and hues; 

 and are adapted, some one or other of them, 

 to every difference of soil, situation, and 

 aspect. They are usually considered of slow 

 growth, but when under favorable circum- 

 stances, soon attain a large size. A magnifi- 

 cent avenue of them, on the fine estate 

 owned by Alexander Brown, Esq., on the 



