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which spring from around their axils. The calyx or acorn 

 cup echinate, or armed with bristly scales. 



A century, it appears, has now elapsed since the first 

 introduction of the Turkey Oak into Britain, and though 

 it grows with great rapidity 

 and vigour, bearing, with per- 

 fect impunity, our severest sea- 

 sons, and thriving upon soils 

 of middling and even inferior 

 quality, it has not hitherto met 

 with that encouragement it ap- 

 pears to deserve both as an 

 ornamental addition to our syl- 

 va, and as a useful and profit- 

 able timber tree. It is from a 

 conviction of its importance in 

 the latter point of view, and 

 supported by the high opinion such writers as Matthew, 

 Bosc, &c, entertain of its valuable qualities, that we admit 

 it into the present work, being 

 anxious, if possible, to bring it 

 into more general cultivation, 

 and to see it take the place of 

 some other trees of less merit 

 in our mixed plantations, par- 

 ticularly in those where the 

 British Oak is intended to form 

 the final crop. Thus, instead 

 of the Wych elm, the beech, 

 and in most cases the ash, 

 which, for the last forty or 

 fifty years, have been planted 

 with too liberal a hand in 



