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most magnificent of the genus, growing often in the fine 
old woods and parks of England, to eighiy and one 
hundred feet in height. The branches spread over a 
great surface. “The leaves are petiolated, smooth, and 
of a uniform color on both sides, enlarged towards the 
summit, and very coarsely toothed.” As a single tree foi 
park scenery, this equals any American species in majesty 
of form, though it is deficient in individual beauty of 
foliage to some of our oaks. It is to be found for sale in 
our nurseries, and we hope will become well known 
among us. The timber is closer grained and more 
durable, though less elastic than the best American oak , 
and Michaux, in his Sylva, recommends its introduction 
into this country largely, on these accounts. 
The Turkey oak. (Q. Cerris.) There are two 
beautiful hybrid varieties of this species, which have 
been raised in England by Messrs. Lucombe and Fulham, 
which we hope will yet be found in our ornamental 
plantations. They are partially evergreen in winter, 
remarkably luxuriant in their growth, attaining a height 
of seventy or eighty feet, and elegant in foliage and 
outline. The Lucombe and Fulham oaks grow from one 
to five feet in a season ; the trees assume 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. Suber ), 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 
