1878 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART HI. 



The leaves of Q. rubra die off of a more purplish red than those of most of 

 the other kinds in this section ; but they often become yellow before they fall. 

 They vary much in shape, from the age of the plant, or the soil and situation 

 in which it has grown. Fig. 1740., copied from the elder Michaux's Histoire 

 dt.s C/ubies, shows the leaves of a seedling a year old; Jig. 1741., from the 

 same work, those of a tree bearing acorns j^g. 1742. shows several leaves 

 gathered from trees in England of four or five years' growth ; Jig. 1743. is 

 drawn from a specimen taken from a tree in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden ; and fg. 1744. is a leaf from the splendid full-grown tree in the Fulham 

 Nursery, of which there is a portrait in ^ l7 ^ 



our last Volume. By comparing the 

 plates of the trees of this species in 



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our last Volume, it will be seen how 

 exceedingly the leaves vary. The 

 BOOnil are sessile, or on very short 

 peduncles; tlicy arc large, and arc produced in great abundance; they are 

 rounded at the summit, and compressed at the base; and they arc contained in 

 flat rerjf shallow cups, covered with narrow compact scales. The red oak is 

 one of the most common species in Canada, and the whole of the north of the 

 I faked States. In the states of New York, Mew .Jersey, part of Philadelphia, 

 and along the whole range of the Alleghanies, it is nearly as abundant as Q. 

 COCCineaand Q, tinctoria; but it is much less common in the more southern 

 , it , perfect derelopement requiring a cool climate and a fertile soil. 



The red oak was introduced into France about 1740, and was first planted 

 on the < >tate of Du Hamel, Bl f'ittriviers. In England, the first notice that 

 we find of the red oak is, that it was cultivated by Miller in 1739. Since 



