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immence number of knees, used in ship building. Mucli of this 

 timber finds its way to England ; this is to be regretted \ in sixty 

 years it will be extinct. 



Besides these there are twenty-five other oaks, according to> 

 Michaux, named as follows : 



Mossy Cup oak, Quereus olivseformis. 



Over-cup White oak, .... — microcarpa. 



Post oak, — obtosiloba. 



Over-cup oak, — lyrata. 



Small Chestnut oak^.... — prinus chincapin. 



Yellow oak, — — acuminate. 



Swamp White oak, — — discolor. 



Chestnut White oak, .... — — palustiis. 



Cork oak, — suber. 



Running oak, — pumila. 



Willow oaky -— phellos. 



Upland Willow oak, — cinerese. 



Laurel oak, — imbricaiia. 



Bear oak, — banisteri. 



Black Jack oak, — ferruginia. 



Water oak, — aquatica. 



Barhamoak, — heterophylla- 



Scarlet oak, — coccinia. 



Grey oak, — ambigua. 



Black oak, — tinctoria. 



Pin. oak, — palustris. 



Red oak, — subra. 



Spanish oak, — falcata. 



Barren Scrub oak, ...... — catesbsei. 



Rock Chestnut oak, — prinus raoutieoja. 



There are likewise twenty-six South American and Mexican 

 oaks, named by F. Bush, growing from 10 to GO feet high. 



ULMUS (THE ELM). 

 Is one of the easiest trees known to tis to remove or transplant. 

 When twenty years old they may be removed with complete suc- 

 cess, provided you cut off all the branches, except thie extreme 



