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ROCK CHESNUT OAK. 
many other species, and is employed for wheel-wrighls’ works and other 
objects which require strength and durability. As it .splits in a straight 
line, and may be divided into fine shreds, it is chosen by the negroes for 
baskets and brooms. Its pores are too open to contain wine or spirituous 
liquors. In the form of rails it lasts 12 or 15 years, or a third longer than 
the Willow Oak. At AiiOTsta in Georgia it is considered as the best fuel, 
and is sold at two or three dollars a cord. 
The Chesnut White Oak endures the winter of Paris, but its vegetation 
would be quicker in the more southern departments. It is to be regretted 
that a tree which seems formed to be one of the finest ornaments of our 
forests, should have nothing to recommend it but its beauty. Other proper- 
ties it possesses only in a secondary degree, and in Europe it will probably 
be confined to the pleasure grounds of amateurs. 
PLATE VIII. 
A hramh with leaves and fruit of the natural size. 
ROCK CHESNUT OAK. 
Quercus PRiNus MoNTicoLA. Q. folUs obovatis acutis grosse dentatis, den- 
tibus subæqualibus ; fructu majusculo, cupulâ turbinatâ, scabrosâ ; glande _ 
oblongâ. 
Quercüs montana. Willd. 
This Oak is among the species which are not scattered promiscuously 
in the forests, but which grow only in particular situations, and easily 
escape observation ; hence it is difficult to assign its limits with precision. 
It probably does not extend northward far beyond Vermont, nor eastward 
beyond New Hampshire. I have never seen it in the District of Maine 
nor in Nova Scotia, and it is not mentioned in my father’s botanical notes 
upon Lower Canada ; it is likewise a stranger to the maritime parts of the 
Southern States. It is most frequently met with in the Middle and in 
some parts of the Northern Sections ; but is rarely mingled with other trees 
in the forests, and is found only on high grounds thickly strewed with stones 
or covered with rocks. Thus it is often seen on the steep and rocky banks 
