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Oak is of very short duration. The buds, after 

 unfolding themselves, make no further progress ; 

 but immediately shrink from the season, and die. 

 The tree continues torpid, like other deciduous 

 trees, during the remainder of the winter, and 

 vegetates again in the spring, at the usual season. 

 I have seen it, in full leaf, in the middle of summer, 

 when it appeared, both in its form and foliage, 

 exactly like other Oaks. 



I have been informed that another tree, with 

 the same property of early germination, has been 

 lately found near the spot where Eufus's monu- 

 ment stands. If this be the case, it seems, in 

 some degree, to authenticate the account which 

 Camden * gives us of the scene of that prince's 

 death : for he speaks of the premature vegetation 

 of that very tree on which the arrow of Tyrrel 

 glanced ; and the tree I now speak of, if it really 

 exist, though I have no sufficient authority for 

 it, might have been a descendant of the old Oak, 

 and have inherited its virtues. 



It is very probable, however, there may be 



* Soo Camden's Account of Ifew Forest. 



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