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is obtained ; and the Italian Esculent oak (Q. Esculus), 
with sweet nutritious acorns. Those, however, who 
wish to investigate them, will pursue this subject further 
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 indigenous 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 transplanted very young, or, which is 
preferable, raised from the acorn sown where it is finally 
to remain. This is necessary on account of the very 
large tap roots of this genus of trees, which are either 
entirely destroyed or greatly injured by removal. Trans- 
planting this genus of trees should be performed either 
early in autumn, as soon as the leaves fall or become 
brown, or in spring before the abundant rains commence. 
The Elm. Ulmus. 
Nat. Ord. Ulmace®. Lin. Syst. Pentandria, Digynia. 
We have ascribed to the oak the character of pre- 
