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planted. From the circumstance of this variety generally coming 

 true from seed, which, from what is stated in the Nouveau L>u 

 Hamel, it would appear to do, it is doubtless very distinct ; and hence 

 the circumstance of De Candolle and others treating it as a species. 



Q. p. 4 pendula; Q. pendula Lodd. Cat., 1836; the Weeping Oak; has 

 branches decidedly pendulous. The largest tree of this variety that 

 we know of, in England, stands in the park at Moccas Court, Here- 

 fordshire, and is, perhaps, one of the most extraordinary trees of the 

 oak kind in existence. It was first pointed out to us in 1806 ; and 

 we have lately had the following account of it sent to us by Mr. J. 

 Webster, who was then, and is still, gardener and forester at Moc- 

 cas : " The tree is in vigorous health. The height of the trunk to the 

 first branch is 18 ft. ; girt, at 9 ft. from the ground, 13 ft. 2 in. ; total 

 height of the trunk, 75 ft., with branches reaching from about the 

 middle of its height to within 7 ft. of the ground, and hanging down 

 like cords. Many of these branches are 30 ft. long, and no thicker in 

 any part of that length than a common waggon rope. The entire head 

 of the tree covers a space 100 ft. in diameter. The tree bears acorns 

 every year, from which many plants have been raised, all of which par- 

 take more or less of the weeping character of the parent ; and many 

 so much so, that, when they are young, they are obliged to be sup- 

 ported by props. Many of the trees raised from this oak at Moccas 

 are twenty years before they show much in- 

 clination to hang their branches like cords ; 

 others begin to do so when they are quite 

 young. There are plants at Moccas, raised 

 from the parent tree, which are 50 years old." 

 (Gard. Mag., vol. xii. p. 368.) Fig. 1568. is 

 a portrait of this tree to the scale of 1 in. to 

 50 ft., which has been reduced from a drawing 

 made for us, in September, 1836, by G. R. 

 Lewis, Esq. Owing to the smallness of the 

 scale, the weeping character is not very obvious 

 in the figure ; but it is very striking in the tree. 

 As the tree stands on a steep bank, and the 

 spread of its branches is up and down the 

 slope, our portrait, which is a front view, 

 does not show so great a diameter of head as it would have done, 

 if a side view had been taken. There is a tree of this kind at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's, which was procured from the Lewisham Nursery, 

 where it is supposed to have been discovered in a seed-bed about 

 1816; and there is one in the Horticultural Society's Garden, raised 

 from an acorn of the Moccas tree, which has not yet become pendu- 

 lous. There is also a tree of the weeping oak in the neighbourhood of 

 Wisbaden, a portrait of which was kindly lent to us by Lady Wal- 

 singham ; but we are not certain to what species the tree belongs. 



Q. p. 5 heterophylla, Q salicifolia Hort., Q. laciniata Lodd. Cat., Q./ili- 

 cifolia Hort., and Q. Fennessi Hort. In this variety the leaves vary 

 exceedingly in magnitude, in shape, and in being lanceolate and entire, 

 cut at the edges, or deeply laciniated. Fig. 1569. shows four leaves, 

 which were sent to us by the Rev. W. T. Bree, from a tree growing 

 in a hedge-row at Allesley, near Coventry. One of these leaves (a) is 

 very long and narrow, and quite entire ; b and c are much indented ; 

 and d approaches to the usual form of the leaf of the British oak. Mr. 

 Bree remarks that those which are first expanded bear the greatest 

 resemblance to the ordinary foliage. There are entire shoots on 

 the tree with foliage of the common kind ; and others with narrow 

 foliage, either entire, or denticulated. The tree, at the height of 5 ft. 

 from the ground, had, in 1832, a trunk 3ft. in circumference; and 



