OAKS FOR ORNAMENTAT. PLANTING 



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LEAVES OF THE 

 RED OAK 



The leaves are large and 

 in color a dark, shiny 

 green and the lobes have 

 prickles on the ends 

 They turn a dark red in 

 autumn. 



The mossy cup oak, native over the 

 eastern half of the United States, is an- 

 other large hsndsome round-headed tree 

 of the white oak group that is particu- 

 larly prominent on the hillsides above the 

 rivers in the eastern half of Kansas and 

 Nebraska. It is adapted to lawn, park, 

 and roadside plantings and may prove 

 useful on city streets. It should be fre- 

 quently planted near the borders of the 

 dry farming country. 



The chestnut oak, or mountain oak, as 

 it is often called in the Allegheny Moun- 

 tains, has a bark like that of the chestnut, 

 and the leaf is also suggestive of it as the 



LEAVES OF THE PIN OAK 

 The leaves are more finely cut than the red 

 oak and are smaller. They are a brilliant 

 red in the autumn and usually hang on all 

 winter. 



irregularities in the margin are about 

 the same distance apart, but instead of 

 being saw toothed, are wavy. The 

 tree is rather upright in growth and 

 seems to prefer dry gravelly ridges. 



There are a large number of other 

 native oaks in different parts of the 

 country which should be used locally 

 for ornamental plan'^ing. 



LEAVES OF THE WHITE OAK 

 The leaves have a tendency to hang on well into the winter, 

 and the tree is very well known because of its wide range of 

 territory. 



LEAVES OF THE SPANISH OAK 



The leaves are of much the same character as the red oak, 

 but the tree is better known in the South than in the North, 



