ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM 



Qtitrcus Corn's Lucombckna. crispn, in the Exeter Nursery. 

 Height 63 ft. ; girt of the trunk 9 ft. ; diameter of the head 48 ft. 



with the exception of the Lucombe and the Fulham oaks, and the pendu- 

 lous-branched Turkey oak, we think that the varieties of Q. C'erris arc 

 scarcely worth keeping apart, since equally interesting ones may at any time 

 be obtained by raising a number of plants from the acorn. In proof of this 

 we may refer to any plantation containing a number of Turkey oaks which 

 have been raised from seed ; and one that just occurs to us is a small 

 avenue of these trees in the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park. 

 Description, Sfc. The Turkey oak is a free-growing tree, with straight vigo- 

 rous branches, which take a much more upright direction than those of the 

 British or common oak ; and both branches and twigs are, in every stage of 

 the tree's growth, wholly free from the tortuous character of those of that 

 species. The trunk is also straightcr ; but the branches, at their junction 



