CHAP. CV. 



coryla'ce/E. que'rcus. 



1628 



1781 



views of the same trunk. A smaller tree, growing near this one, and repre- 

 sented by b, has the junction of the trunks nearer the ground. Another spe- 

 cimen, growing near a farm-house, is represented by d; and a fourth one by c. 

 All these oaks are within a short distance of each other; and Mr. Bree thinks 

 the trunks were probably joined artificially by some one who had a fancy for 

 such experiments. They are all of the species Q. pedunculata. The figures 

 are to a scale of 1 in. to 1 2 ft. 



Oaks conjoined with other Trees. The oak being a tree of great duration, 

 and its trunk, in the course of years, spreading wider than that of many 

 trees, not unfrequently grows round the stems of trees which grow close by 

 it; or, its trunk becoming hollow, and the head being broken off by storms, 

 other trees frequently spring up within it, and produce a flourishing head en- 

 cased with an oak trunk. Hence, we have an oak conjoined with an ash near 

 the lake at Welbeck, figured in Rooke's Remarkable Oaks, &c, pi. 6. This ash 

 grows out of the bottom of a large oak, " to which it adheres to the height of 

 about 6 ft. ; it there separates, and leaves a space of nearly 3 ft. in height. 

 Here, as if unwilling to be disunited, it stretches out an arm, or little protube- 

 rance, to coalesce again with the fostering oak." At Bearwood, near Reading, 



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