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Querrvs Alba — White-oak. Quercus Castanea — Yellow- 

 Che^tnut-oak. Quercus Coccinea — Scarlet-oak. Quer- 

 cus Prinus^Swamp- Chestnut-oak. Quercus Rubra — 

 Pceil-oak. Quercus S/ellata — Post-oak. Quercus Tinct- 

 oria — Quercitron-oak. 



The Avhite-oak rejoices in deep, heavy land, not too 

 damp. In stony soils the chestnut-oak does well. The 



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62. — Juslans nigra— Black-walnut, 



qneroitron-oak loves dry land : the scarlet-oak, rich 

 land ; the post-oak loves an alluvial soil, and the scarlet, 

 has the same tastes as the white-oak, only it is less afraid 

 of moisture. The seed, or acorns, of the quercitron, 

 the scarlet, and the red sorts, takes two years to ripen ■, 

 but the others mature in the autumn of the first 



