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The Rural Xetv- Yorker says this new 

 tree has been tried on the Rural 

 Grounds, and objects to it on the 

 ground that it loses its leaves quite 

 early in the autumn. 



THE PIN OAK. 



No lawn or park of any size is com- 

 plete without one or more specimens of 

 the oak — the king of forest trees. Nor 

 need there be any lack of variety in 

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kind, when we find as many as forty 

 varieties offered for sale for ornamental 

 planting in the catalogue of a .single 

 nursery. 



The Pin Oak, or Quercus pcdustris, 

 is one of peculiar beauty for lawn or 

 park planting. The foliage is a deep 

 green, and finely divided. Its habit 

 of growth is very striking, for as the 

 tree advances in age, the branches 



