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part of Asia Minor and Syria. The species is propagated 

 by the acorns, which are borne in abundance after the 

 tree has attained a certain age, and are frequently ripened 

 even in the north of England. The varieties, however, 

 which are numerous, must, in order to prevent further 

 sporting, be continued by grafting, which is done by the 

 slip method upon stocks of the species, or those of the 

 common Oak, and the closer to the ground the graft can 

 be placed upon the stock the better, as it succeeds much 

 more readily when the earth can be heaped around it, 

 so as to leave not more than a single eye or bud exposed. 



Plants raised from the seed succeed best if twice trans- 

 planted during their stay in the nursery before they are 

 finally removed, as their lengthy tap root generally having 

 a portion cut off in the operation, throws out a greater 

 abundance of lateral roots, a circumstance greatly in favour 

 of their success. The pitting mode of planting must be 

 pursued, as the length and size of the roots prevent their 

 easy insertion by the T or slitting method. 



Amongst the varieties of the Cerris, the Quer. c. pendula, 

 weeping Turkey Oak, seems one of the most beautiful 

 and best deserving of culture ; a fine specimen of this 

 variety, now forty years old, growing at Hack wood Park, 

 is figured in Loudon's " Arb. Brit." The Quer. c. Austriaca 

 is another well-marked variety, and a native of Austria, 

 Hungary, and other parts of Europe, and to this Quer. c. 

 cana major and minor seem nearly allied. But the finest 

 and most desirable varieties, in an ornamental point of 

 view, are those sub-evergreen kinds known by the names 

 of the Fulham and Lucombe Oaks. Of the origin and 

 age of the first nothing precise seems known, except 

 that it is supposed to have been raised at Fulham, from 

 seed. It is a fine, broad-leaved, sub-evergreen variety, 



