aUACK GRASS, QUICK GRASS, QUITCH GRASS, 

 lee Aijropyrum. 



QUAKING GRASS. Speci. 



QUAMOCLIT. See Ipomaa. 



QUEEN LILY. This name has been proposed for 

 Phieilranassa; also for Curcuma; and i,t has been errone- 

 ously used for Strelitzia. 



Utmaria pentapetala ; 



QUEEN OF THE PRAIRIE. Spiraa lobata. 



QUfiRCirS- (ancient Latin naniii r ■-.,"•;.,- . Oak. 

 Ornamental deciduous or evergrci 11 . -liriibs, 



with alternate, petioled, entire or 1 . i incon- 



spicuous monoecious fls., the stuiiiiiiii. ' ii. ~ IN -Under, 

 pendulous, rarely upright, catkin^ ills. -ii.;m; the 

 fruits, or "acorns." con.sisting of a glubular to oblong 

 nut, inclosed or embraced only at the base, or rarely 

 wholly, by a cup-like involucre. The deciduous species 

 are mostly hardy north, while of the evergreen ones 

 none seem to be hardy farther north than Washington, 

 D. C; some half -evergreen Oaks, like Q. Turneri and 

 Q. Mncedonica, will probably prove hardy in the vicin- 

 ity of New York. Most of tlie Oaks are stately trees of 

 noble and majestic habil wiili stmit, wnh ^jinading 

 branches; some, like (,' n/'" Ci , , n.i mi ]n:iiiii(i>ia 

 and c7u'i/.90?c/)j.s-,often COM I i .j, n • n tli m mil ft. in 



t.l. «1„1,. Q. 

 broad pyra- 

 is, generally 

 ■). niriM!,!. 



They have many 



nder side being silvery 

 as in Q.AfnJilnlmvl. 

 foreign evergreen spi-- 



Ccrris, lanuginosa, glicudttlifera and others, retain 

 green color until late in fall. Besides our native e 

 green species, the Japanese Q. acuta, cuspldatti 



evergreen Oaks for cultiva- 

 opean Q. Ilex and Suher are 



anil iN,,,,| V ,„,/„„ „/,;, ii n, i s.mnat <.ii.-i- sliould 

 be strafili.-.l anil so«,i , nh in s|i,ing. Acorns should 

 be |Kii-Ki d m taitli. ni-iss oi s ,u iiu.,t when shipped for 

 a great distan<-e. \'.ii n in s art- usiirilly grafted on potted 

 stock in the greenhouse in early .spring or sometimes m 

 Augtist. As a stock Q. pediincnUita is preferred, but 

 Q. rubra, tinctoria and Prinus are also employi-d. It is 

 probably safer to graft varieties of White and of Hed 

 Oak each on stock of the same group. The evergreen 

 species are sometimes increased by layers and also by 

 cuttings. 



About 300 species are known, distributed through the 

 colder and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere 

 and in the mountains of the tropics. Almost all species 

 are trees, but sometimes become shrubby in high alti- 

 tudes or in dry and rocky or sandy localities. Lvs. 

 shoi-t-petioled, with deciduous stipules, penninerved: 

 the staminate in slender, pendulous or 



