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possible to secure large butts of Austrain oak capable of yielding billets 

 particularly clean and free from defects, and of a width exceeding that 

 procurable elsewhere. Moreover, the wood is mild in quality, and shows 



Photograph by kind permission oj H . J. Elwe^, Esq. 



Oak Grove, Kyre Park, Worcestershire. 



bold silver-grain. In colour it is of a uniform yeUow-brown, and in this 

 respect, as well as in its grain, is often indistinguishable from Russian 

 oak. Apart from these features it is probably slightly inferior to the 

 timber obtainable from the more northern forests of South Russia. 



