December 12, 1894.] 



Garden and Forest. 



495 



ing what Professor Rothrock has called a broom-like top. 

 This top will save the tree if the surrounding growth is not 

 left too long, that is, not more than forty to forty-five years. 

 If now the earlier conditions are restored, the branches 

 become more or less pendulous, giving the tree something 

 of the appearance of the Elm. Such a tree is the subject 

 of the illustration. 



acute or obtuse, and in their shape fully agree with the 

 popular idea of the Oak leaf. They are dark green and 

 thick. The branchlets are rusty, with a close pubescence, 

 and bear, when fruiting, one, or usually two or three, acorns 

 three-quarters to one and a quarter inches long, and from 

 five-eighths to seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, with a 

 bloom. The cups, which are shallow, are more or less 



Quercus Garryana, Ihe Garry Oak, in Oregon. — See page 494, 



The bark is light gray, longitudinally, but not deeply, 

 furrowed. The ridges thus formed are scarcely an inch 

 broad, and are either not at all or, more commonly, irreg- 

 ularly furrowed transversely. It sometimes occurs that the 

 transverse furrows are so regular and frequent as to give 

 the bark a regular checker-board appearance. 



The leaves are from two to six inches long:. The lobes 



tubercled, sessile, or sometimes raised on a stalk about 

 three-quarters of an inch long. 



The wood has a beautiful grain, and is very valuable for 

 interior finishing. It is said, however, that in drying it 

 becomes brittle, and it is very liable to check badly. Only 

 the greatest care in drying for a long period, two years at 

 least, will obviate this fault. 



