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shade and shelter. The seedling becomas about a foot 

 high the first year, and may be transplanted a year from 

 the amputation of the tap-root. The ultimate height of the 

 different oaks is as follows : the white-oak, seventy feet 

 by four ; the chestnut-oak, sixty feet ; the quercitron 

 eighty feet ; the post oak, fifty feet ; the swamp-chestnut 

 oak, one hundred feet ; and the red-oak grows as large as 



66. — Ostry-i Virginica— Iron wood. 



the white, but not so high. Slow grower as is the white 

 oak, it is said to reach, in twenty four years, a height of 

 twenty fire feet, with a diameter of two feet at twelve 

 inches from the ground. Thus, in these few years it be- 

 comes of great value for building, and is worth sowing, 

 even by those who look to reap a profit in their own life- 

 time. The ship-builder, the plough-maker, the cooper, all 

 value highly the timber of the oak, 

 and it furnishes excellent firewood. 

 The inner bark of the quercitron sup- 

 plies the dyer with a yellow-dye — 

 hence its trivial name— Dyer's oak. Eng. 

 67.-seed ofironwood. j^^ ,^3^ ^ gg^ represents the white-oak, 



No.*74, same page, its leaves and No.V5,samepage,its acorn; 

 eng. No. *76, p. 90, represents the chesnut-oak, and No. '7'7, 



