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3. The acorn oak. The civic crown , .. 341 
4. The origin of the presentation of crowns 342 
5. Persons presented with a crown of leaves 343 
6. Thirteen varieties of the acorn 345 
7. The beech 346 
8. The other acorns — wood for fuel . . . . , ib, 
9. The gall-nut . . 350 
10. Other productions on these trees besides the acorn ib. 
11. Cachrys 351 
12. The kermes berry 353 
13. Agaric ib. 
14. Trees of which the bark is used 354 
15. Shingles 355 
16. The pine ib. 
17. The pinaster 356 
18. The pitch-tree : the fir ib. 
19. The larch : the torch-tree 357 
20. Theyew ..' 360 
21. Methods of making tar — how cedrium is made 361 
22. Methods by which thick pitch is prepared ib. 
23. How the resin called zopissa is prepared 363 
24. Trees the wood of which is highly valued. Four varieties of 
the ash 365 
25. Two varieties of the linden-tree 366 
26. Ten varieties of the maple . , . . 367 
27. Bruscum : molluscum ; the staphylodendron 368 
28. Three varieties of the box-tree . . . . . . ib. 
29. Four varieties of the elm 370 
30. The natures of the various trees according to their localities : the 
mountain trees, and the trees of the plain ib. 
31. Trees which grow on a dry soil : those which are found in wet 
localities : those which are found in both indifferently . . . . 372 
32. Division of trees into various species 373 
33. Trees which do not lose their foliage. The rhododendron. Trees 
which do not lose the whole of their foliage. Places in which 
there are no trees ib. 
34. The nature of the leaves which wither and fall 374 
35. Trees which have leaves of various colours ; trees with leaves of 
various shapes. Three varieties of the poplar 375 
36. Leaves which turn round every year 376 
37. The care bestowed on the leaves of the palm, and the uses to 
which they are applied • 377 
38. Eemarkable facts connected with leaves ib, 
39. The natural order of the production of plants 379 
40. Trees which never blossom. The juniper 380 
41. The fecundation of trees. Germination : the appearance of the fruit 381 
42. In what order the trees blossom 383 
43. At what period each tree bears fruit. The cornel 384 
44. Trees which bear the whole year. Trees which have on them 
the fruit of three years 385 
