THE OAK. 5 



his Grrace the Duke of Devonshire's planta- 

 tions, with an easterly aspect, opposite Fox- 

 lowe, are raised from a sack of acorns which 

 I gave to my lamented friend, the late Philip 

 Heacock, Esq., and sown by him in his own 

 garden at Foxlowe, and were from majestic 

 oaks in the park of J. W. Spicer, Esq., of 

 Esher Place, Surrey. Of the success of rais- 

 ing oak timber from acorns, there cannot be 

 seen a more striking example than at Wel- 

 beck, in Notts, where thousands of oaks 

 raised from acorns, of forty years' growth and 

 more, are making a rapid and healthy and 

 vigorous progress from the beds in which they 

 were first deposited. The late most amiable 

 and excellent noble owner of Welbeck, and, 

 as I have been told, of more than half of the 

 county of Ayr, in Scotland, set a noble exam- 

 ple to all his compeers of planting for poste- 

 rity. 



But during our long war, and our isolated 

 position, the demand for all kinds of timber 



