GROWING GOLD. 



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CHAPTER VIL 



ON THE QUALITY OF 

 DIFFERENT SPECIES OF OAK. 



According to the most eminent botanical 

 writers, the sessiliflora oak is propagated in 

 the New Forest, and several other places 

 mentioned by them, the timber of which 

 they state to be very inferior* for ship 

 building, and for other exposed or important 

 purposes. It is cultivated on certain estates 

 too, as is also the Turkish species — the timber 

 of which is quite as inferior. The latter I 

 have myself seen in two of the royal parks. 



^ Sir J. E. Smith's English Flora, vol. 4, p. 148—50. 



