1924 



ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM. 



PART 1 



worth Nursery, which has been -10 years planted, being only 

 from 82ft, to 85ft. high, with a trunk 1 ft. Sin. in circum- 

 ference at 5 ft. from the ground. Two trees in the Hammer- 

 smith Nursery, about the same ago, are rather higher. Trees 

 in nurseries, however, are seldom fair specimens, as they 

 are kept there for the purpose of supplying scions for bud- 

 ding or grafting. The tree in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden has attained the height of 12 ft, in 10 years; and one at Ham 

 House was, in 1S34, 42 ft. high; the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 6 in., and 

 o\ the head 18 ft. Neither this tree nor that in the Sawbridgeworth Nursery, 

 nor any other that we have hoard of, has yet flowered. 



U 41. Q. iiy'brida na x na. The dwarf hybrid Oak. 



Sjfmom/met. (I h^brida Lodd. Cat., 1836; Q. "a hybrid between Q. pedunculata and Q. JMex, in 



the Horticultural Society's Garden ;" Q. hitmilis Ilort. ; Q. nana Hort. 

 Kngravings. Owrfigi. 1810. and 1811. 



Spec. Char.y $c. Leaves ovate or oblong, obtusely dentate, smooth, and of the 

 same colour on both sides. Footstalks short. Found about 1825, in a bed of 

 seedling oaks in the Bristol Nursery, where the original plant, in May, 1837, 

 was between 8 ft. and 9 ft. high, with a trunk 8 in. in circumference at 1 ft. 

 from the ground. Propagated by grafting on the common oak. It is a 



decidedly subevergreen bush, and not a tree ; whence has arisen the 

 popular name of humilis. In summer, the leaves, at a distance, bear a 



iderable resemblance to those of the common oak ; but, on a nearer 

 inspection, they appear as in Jig. 1811. or in Jig. 1810.: the first from the 

 specimen tree in the Hackney arboretum, and the second from the arboretum 

 at Milford. Towards the autumn, those shoots which have continued 

 ring, exhibit leaves on their extremities so exactly like those of Q. 

 J (inters, that it is altogether impossible to make any distinction between 

 them This ifl so very strikingly the case 

 ;tt Messrs. Loddiges's, that, if it were not 

 from the totally different habit of Q. 

 Turner) and Q, hybrids nana, we should, 

 from the appearance of the leaves, which 



in on, in both species, at the points 

 of the shoots, after all the others have 

 dropped off, consider them to be the same 

 /■'/;'. 1812. exhibits leaves taken 

 from the extremities of the shoots, in different parts of 

 in the Horticultural Society's Garden, in May, 1837. 



ime plant, 



