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Live Oak : California Species. 



growing in Georgia, Florida, and along the Gulf Coast, and since 

 an early period in our government it has been an object of protec- 

 tion to some extent on account of its great value in ship-building." 

 Some experiments at cultivation were attempted many years since, 

 but without much success, excepting the clearing away of bushes 

 around young plants found native in the thickets. It could doubt- 

 less be grown from acorns with proper care, perhaps by using slight 

 perishable baskets for keeping the soil around the roots in trans- 

 planting from seed-beds, as is practiced with bamboo shells in rais- 

 ing the teak and the cinchonas in India. The wood of the live 

 oak is of great strength and hardness, but not of slow growth, the 

 annual layers being often a quarter or a third of an inch in thick- 

 ness. This tree especially deserves cultivation in regions where it 

 wiU grow. 



125. Querms Bindsit'.— Leaves and Acorn one-half the Natural 



Size. 



863. Among the remaining oaks of the Atlantic States, there are 

 many that have a local value, but none that enter largely into com- 

 merce, or that are extensively used in manufactures. Most of them 

 afford excellent fuel and charcoal, and some of them are quite durable 

 when used as railway ties or fence posts. The bark of the " scarlet 



