1858 



ARBORETUM AND I'llUTTOFTUM, 



PART III. 



1718 



Qudrcus CJrrfs Lucombehna crlspa, in the Exeter Nursery. 

 Heij lit SSft ; gilt of the trunk 9 ft. ; diameter of the head 48 ft. 



with the I -\( ( -prion of the Lucombe and the Fnlham oaks, and the pendu- 

 lous-branched Turkey oak, we think that the varieties of Q. Cerris are 

 rcelj rorth keeping apart, since equally interesting ones may at anytime 

 be obtained by raising a number of plants from the acorn. In proof of this 

 we may refer to any plantation containing a number of Turkey oaks which 

 have been raised from seed ; and one that just occurs to us is a small 

 avenue of these trees in the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park. 

 h> criptum, SfC. The Turkey oak is a free-growing tree, with straight vigo- 

 rous branches, which take B much more upright direction than those of the 

 h or common oak ; and both brandies and twigs are, in every stage of 

 the tr< th, wholly \'ur, from the tdrtUOUl character of those of that 



pecie 11" trunk is also straighter; but the branches, at their junction 



