TREES AND SHRUBS 



TURKEY OAK, Querc7is Cerris. 



Parks, gardens, plantations. April, May. A tree with handsome foliage and 

 peculiar mossy-cupped acorns. The species of Oak are propagated by seed 

 (acorns) gathered in autumn, stored in sand till March, and then sown, trans- 

 planting seedlings when one year old ; choice kinds are grafted on the common 

 species in March. 



Floivers greenish-white ; 3Iale catkins pubescent, 1-3 ins. long, flowers distant ; 

 Females sessile, at sides of short peduncle, single or groups 2-4 ; Perianth usually 

 4- partite ; Stamens 4, hairy ; Ovary grey-tomentose, stigma lobes often 4, 

 sessile, reflexed, linear, pointed ; Fruit a glans (acorn), solitary or twin, sessile, 

 cylindrical, brown, f-lj in. long, cup hemisplierical, with bristly or moss-like 

 scales, rarely ripening till second year, acorn long ovoid, dark brown, tomentose 

 at apex. 



Leaves oblong or obovate, variable, shortly petiolate, 2-3 ins. long, sinuate or 

 pinnatifid, lobes lanceolate, unequal, acute, angular, sliglitly pilose both surfaces, 

 stipules narrow-linear, pilose, persistent on leaf-bases. Autumn tints russet- 

 brown to dull grey. 



A deciduous tree, 50-60 ft. ; pyramidal outline ; Branches erect, generally in 

 long straiglit linei, spray small, young branches pubescent; Buds with few 

 ciliate, pubescent scales ; Wood coarser and straighter in grain than English Oak ; 

 used for all kinds of constructive work. 



Native of S. Europe and Levant ; introduced 1735. Also called Mossy- 

 cupped Oak. 



SCARLET OAK, Quc/rus cocdnea. 



Parks. May. In the early days of autumn tliere is perhaps no more 

 beautiful tree. 



Florvers monoecious; 31alc cafhins 3-4 ins. long, slender; Perianth 



4-5-partite, lobes acute, shorter than stamens, red ; Females on pubescent 



peduncles, perianth lobes acute, scales red, ovate, acute, stigmatic arms 



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