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partially evergreen in winter, remarkably luxuriant in their 
growth, attaining a height of seventy or eighty feet, and ele- 
gant in foliage and outline. The Lucombe and Fulham 
oaks grow from one to five feet in a season ; the trees as- 
sume a beautiful pyramidal shape, and as they retain their 
fine glossy leaves till May, they would form a fine contrast 
to other deciduous trees. 
We might here enumerate a great number of other fine 
foreign oaks ; among which, the most interesting are the 
Holly or Holm oak, ( Quercus Ilex ;) and the Cork oak, 
(Q. Saber,) of the south of France, which produces the 
cork of commerce ; (both rather too tender for the north ;) 
the Kermes oak, (Q. coccifera ,) from which a scarlet dye is 
obtained ; and the Italian Esculent oak, ( Q. Esculus ,) with 
sweet nutritious acorns. Those, however, who wish to in- 
vestigate them, will pursue this subject farther in European 
works ; while that splendid treatise on our forest trees, the 
North American Sylva of Michaux, will be found to give 
full and accurate descriptions of all our numerous indige- 
nous varieties, of which many are peculiar to the southern 
states. 
The oak flourishes best on a strong loamy soil, rather 
moist than dry. Here at least the growth is most rapid, 
although, for timber, the wood is generally not so sound on a 
moist soil as a dry one, and the tree goes to decay more 
rapidly. Among the American kinds, however, some may 
be found adapted to every soil and situation, though those 
species which grow on upland soils, in stony, clayey, or 
loamy bottoms, attain the greatest size and longevity. When 
immense trees are desired, the oak should either be trans- 
planted very young, or, which is preferable, raised from the 
acorn sown where it is finally to remain. This is necessary 
