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NATURE STUDY 



Charles was long celebrated as a holiday, under the name 

 of Royal Oak Day. 



The Yule log, half burnt at each of the great feasts of 

 the Druids, Avas of oak. 



Red Oak. 

 a. Acorns, first year ; c. Acorns, second year. 



The Round Table of King Arthur, still shown at Win- 

 chester, alleged to be genuine, is a cross-section of an 

 old oak tree, eighteen feet in diameter. 



The Greeks believed it to be the first tree that grew on 



