1852 



UIBORETUM AND KKUTICETU.M. PART III 





712 



Qudrcus Cerris Lucombchna., in its deciduous state, in the Exeter Nursery. 

 Height 75 ft. ; diameter of trunk fift. ; diameter of the head 65 ft. 



This variety is subevcrgrecn : it was raised by Lueombe, nurseryman 

 at Exeter, from seeds of the species, sown about 1762. The acorns 

 had been saved from a tree of Mr. Lueombe' s own growth; and, 



Ik n the plants came up, lie observed one amongst them that kept 



on throughout the winter, to which he paid particular 



attention, and propagated some thousands of it by grafting. In an 



int of this variety published in the G2d volume of the Phi/o- 



tophical TraruaetionMf dated 1772, it is described as "a tree, 



rowing as Straight and handsome as a fir, with evergreen leaves, 

 and wood in hardness and strength exceeding that of all other 

 oak . It makes but one shoot in the year, viz. in May; but this 

 continues growing throughout the summer, not being interrupted, 

 about mid umiiHT, by the pause which occurs between the produc- 

 tion of the first and the second shoots, in the case of the com- 

 mon oak. The tree grows so rapidly, that the original specimen, 

 at 7 years old, measured 21 ft. high, and I ft. 8in. in circumference: at G 



old, a grafted tree was 2.'* ft. high; and a tree 4 years grafted was 



16 ft. high." The -hoots are, in general, from 4 ft. to £ ft. in length; 



