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Further Notices respecting British Oaks. 



respects. Let any 

 person riding or 

 walking along a 

 road bordered by 

 oak trees, or one 

 where there are 

 oak trees in the 

 hedges, only ob- 

 serve one tree af- 

 ter another, as he 

 moves along, and 

 note the remark- 

 able differences in 

 the foliage, not to 

 speak of the more 

 evident differences in the form and general magnitude of 

 the trees ; and he will be convinced of the truth of what we 

 assert. If he is a Londoner, let him walk from Hampstead to 

 Mill Hill. He will see on the road side a great many varieties of 

 Q. jRobur pedunculata, and one or two specimens of Q. iiobur 

 sessiliflora; and, at the commencement of Mill Hill, he will find a 

 tree with nearly the same kind of leaves as Fennessey's oak, 



figured p. 497. If he afterwards should have access to the 

 gardens of the villas at Mill Hill, he will find in them several 

 specimens of oaks, remarkable both for their magnitude, their 

 foliage, and their acorns. 



The stately and magnificent edifice used for a Protestant dis- 

 senters' school, built in the grounds of what was formerly the 

 villa of Peter Collinson, and the garden belonging to which still 

 contains many fine specimens of the rare trees planted by that 

 good and truly patriotic man, are well worth seeing, and the 

 stranger visiting them can hardly fail of being well received by 

 the excellent and intelligent master of the school, the Rev. W. 

 Clayton. Near a pond in these grounds will be found two 

 specimens of Q. R. sessiliflora; and there are several American 

 oaks in different parts of the lawn and paddock. 



The greatest treat, however, in the neighbourhood of London, 



