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peculiar advantage of growing well on the most barren and 
rocky soils, and can therefore be advantageously employed 
by the landscape gardener, when a steep, dry, rocky bank is 
to be covered with trees. In deep, mellow soil, its growth 
is wonderfully vigorous, and it rapidly attains a height of 
50 or 60 feet, with a corresponding diameter. The head 
is rather more symmetrical in form and outline than most 
trees of this genus, and the stem, in free, open places, shoots 
up into a lofty trunk. The leaves are five or six inches 
long, three or four broad, oval and uniformly denticulated, 
with the teeth more regular but less acute than the Chest- 
nut white oak. When beginning to open in the spring 
they are covered with a thick down ; but when fully ex- 
panded they are perfectly smooth and of a delicate texture. 
Michaux. 
Chestnut White oak. ( Quercus Prinus palustris.) 
This species much resembles the last, but differs in 
having longer leaves, which are obovate, and deeply 
toothed. It is sparingly found in the northern states, and 
attains its greatest altitude in the south, where it is often 
seen 90 feet in height. Though generally found in the 
neighborhood of swamps and low grounds, it grows with 
wonderful rapidity in a good, moderately dry soil, and 
from the beauty of its fine spreading head, and the 
quickness of its growth, is highly deserving of introduction 
into our plantations. 
The Yellow oak. (Q. Prinus acuminata .) The 
Yellow oak may be found scattered through our woods 
over nearly the whole of the Union. Its leaves are 
lanceolate, and regularly toothed, light green above, and 
whitish beneath; the acorns small. It forms a stately 
tree, 70 feet high ; and the branches are more upright in 
