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Swamp White Oak (Leona) : As much of my timber 

 is so nearly like that of White Oak, and often passes 

 for it, I will say, as a tree, "I am beautiful in every 

 stage of my growth; at first, light, slender, delicate, and 

 waving; at last, broad, massive, and grand, but always 

 graceful." 



Chestnut Oak (James) : Emerson says of White Oak : 

 "As an ornament to the landscape, or as a single object, 

 no other tree is to be compared with it, in every period of 

 its growth, for picturesqueness, majesty, and inexhaustible 

 variety of beauty. When standing alone it throws out its 

 mighty arms with an air and force of grandeur which have 

 made it everywhere to be considered the fittest emblem of 

 strength and power of resistance. Commonly the oak 

 braves the storm to the last, without yielding, better than 

 any other tree. The limbs go out at a great angle and 

 stretch horizontally to a vast distance." 



Laurel Oak (John): The famous A. J. Downing said: 

 "There are no grander or more superb trees than our 

 American oaks. We are fully disposed to concede it the 

 first rank among the denizens of the forest. As an orna- 

 mental object we consider the oak the most varied in 

 expression, the most beautiful, grand, majestic and pic- 

 turesque of all deciduous trees." 



Black Jack Oak (Herbert) : Poetry, history, mythol- 

 ogy, and romance abound in references to the oak. I 



