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peculiar advantage of growing well on the most barren and 

 rocky soils, and can therefore be advantageously employed 

 by the landscape gardener, when a steep, dry, rocky bank ia 

 to be covered with trees. In deep, mellow soil, its growth 

 is wonderfully vigorous, and it rapidly attains a height of 

 50 or 60 feet, with a corresponding diameter. The head 

 is rather more symmetrical in form and outline than most 

 trees of this genus, and the stem, in free, open places, shoots 

 up into a lofty trunk. The leaves are five or six inches 

 long, three or four broad, oval and uniformly denticulated, 

 with the teeth more regular but less acute than the Chest- 

 nut white oak. When beginning to open in the spring 

 they are covered with a thick down ; but when fully ex- 

 panded they are perfectly smooth and of a delicate texture. 

 Michaux. 



Chestnut White oak. (Quercus Prinus palustris.) 

 This species much resembles the last, but differs in 

 having longer leaves, which are obovate, and deeply 

 toothed. It is sparingly found in the northern states, and 

 attains its greatest altitude in the south, where it is often 

 seen 90 feet in height. Though generally found in the 

 neighborhood of swamps and low grounds, it grows with 

 wonderful rapidity in a good, moderately dry soil, and 

 from the beauty of its fine spreading head, and the' 

 quickness of its growth, is highly deserving of introduction 

 into our plantations. 



The Yellow oak. (Q. Prinus acuminata.) The 

 Yellow oak may be found scattered through our woods 

 over nearly the whole of the Union. Its leaves are 

 lanceolate, and regularly toothed, light green above, and 

 whitish beneath; the acorns small. It forms a stately 

 tree, 70 feet high ; and the branches are more upright in 



