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YELLOW OAK. 
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part of the frame, and oftener for the knees and the ribs : pieces of WHite 
Oak suited to these objects are procured with difficulty ; but the Rock 
Chesnut Oak, growing up in a continual controversy with the winds, is 
more frequently bent into the proper shape. For fuel, it is next in price 
to the Hickory. I have been told in several forges, especially those at the 
foot of the North Mountain, 200 miles from Philadelphia, that it is superior 
in this respect to every other species of its genus except the Live Oak. 
A tree like this, which grows in stony soils, in abrupt uninhabitable 
exposures, and whose bark and timber are so valuable, deserves the parti- 
cular attention of American and European foresters. They should sow 
the acorns in the crevices of the rocks, and wherever the soil is incapable 
of cultivation. Thousands of young plants already exist in the vicinity of 
Paris. 
PLATE IX. 
A branch with leaves and fruit of the natural size. 
[See NuttalPs Supplement, Vol. 1, p. 23.] 
YELLOW OAK. 
OuERCUS PRiNus ACUMINATA. Q.folus lougè pctiolatis, acuminatis, suh-sequal^ 
iter dentatis ; fructii mediocri ; cvpulâ subhemisphæricâ. 
Quercus castanea. Willd. 
The banks of the Delaware may be assumed as the northern limit of 
the Yellow Oak. It scarcely exists in the maritime parts of the Southern 
States, where I have seen only a few stocks near Two Sisters’ Ferry on 
the Savannah in Georgia, and a single one on the Cape Fear, a mile from 
Fayetteville in North Carolina. In the Middle and Western States, though 
more common, it is still rare in comparison with many other trees, and is 
sometimes lost sight of by the traveller for several days in succession. I 
have most particularly observed it on the small river Conestoga near Lan- 
caster in Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela a little above Pittsburg, and 
in several small tracts near the Holston and Nolachukyin East Tennessee. 
