' February lo, 1883.} 
THE GARDENERS' CHRON 
A PYRAMIDAL OAK. 
Pyramidal Oaks are not common in England. 
Why not ? I do not know the reason, but perhaps 
it is because they are not enough known. They are 
very ornamental trees, in habit resembling Lombardy 
Poplars, but surpas.sing them much in point of beauty. 
They are rather common in German gardens, but the 
oldest and finest specimens are to be found in this 
this park. This is the parent tree, or, as we Germans 
say, the mother tree of all the pyramidal Oaks found 
in garden^s. W e have several specimens here in height 
not much behind the parent tree, but in point of 
beauty not one can rival it. The tree is now about 
100 years old and just 100 feet high— the same height 
in fact, as the pyramidal Oak near Babenhausen. The 
circumference of the stem at 3 feet above-ground is 
8 feet 6 inches. C. Wissenbach, Royal Gardens, WiR 
helmsholie^ near Cashel, 
5 possessed of some 
ix, like the lateral^ 
)n extra-axillary pj^.. 
earance of being c| 
Flowers of both* 
more purely scientjj 
lot be manifested.!. 
the substance 0/ 
’ Mr. Morris, the 
lantations, Jamaic, 
plantations in ( 
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lant, Mr. Morris 
irt of his subjeep 
ilants from seed,, 
the crop, basin/: 
acquired in 
3n seems to be 
er from wind bei^ 
conditions in 
avourable foritsj- 
Fig. 26. pyramidal oak in the park at wilhelmshohe. 
park, and I hope the illustration of the tallest one, 
shown in its winter state (fig. 26), will gain them 
many friends. 
The oldest pyramidal Oak, a natural sport, is 
standing in a forest near Babenhausen, in North 
Bavaria. Efforts were made to propagate the tree by 
grafting, and three young plants resulted. One of 
them came to Worlitz, and another one was planted 
here. It is not known where the third one is. 
The Oak in Worlitz soon perished ; of the third one 
nothing has been heard, and it also may be dead, so 
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