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a thick trunk more than three feet in diameter, it is not an cus Prinus) ; it is valued for tannmg leather, but the 

 rnposin7or handsome tree in its maturity and is only wood is considered worthless Quercusdentata appe 

 beautiful in youth. Old trees lack symmetry and the ap- be the only deciduous-leaved Oak cultivated by the Japa- 



Fig. 58.— Ostrya Japonica.— See page 383. 



pearance of Strength, and are sprawling in habit, without nese, and small trees are common in the gardens of 

 being picturesque. The bark is rather dark for a White Tokyo and other southern cities, where, however, it seems 

 Oak and not unlike that of our Rock Chestnut Oak (Quer- to languish. A variety (pinnatifida), with deeply divided 



