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GROWING GOLD. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE GROWTH OF OAK. 



It may be seen that the circumference of 

 oak trees is so near to that of the pine class, 

 Spanish chesnut, and other fashionable trees, 

 standing within a few feet of them, that oak 

 can be no longer considered a slow growing 

 tree: the deficiency, whenever it occurs, is 

 occasioned by their not bearing transplanting 

 so well as many other species ; a disadvantage 

 never to be overcome when surrounded by 

 other kinds of trees which recover from 

 transplantation earlier, and, as a natural 



