DECIDUOUS TREES. 
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our American wants, our American people have appreciated it 
correctly, for with all its grandeur and beauty, many of the 
varieties have the habit of retaining their dead brown leaves, 
hanging in dirty masses all winter, marring rather than adorning 
the landscape. 
Downing says of it, that “ to arrive at its highest perfection, 
ample space on every side must be allowed,” and where such 
position can be given it in public or private grounds, we should 
plant it ; but in small suburban and village home grounds there 
are no such places, and their owners must be content with trees 
of a less historical or poetical interest. 
Of the varieties most ornamental, we enumerate the rock 
chestnut oak — Quercus prinus monticola ; chestnut white oak — 
Q. prinus paliistris ; yellow oak — Q. prinus acuminata ; pin oak 
— Q. palustris ; willow oak — Q. yhellos ; '’overcup white oak — Q. 
macrocarpa ; scarlet oak — Q. coccinea; and English oak, Q.rohur. 
The live oak — Q. mrens of the South — is beautiful, and there 
can be grown as a park tree ; but it will not endure the climate 
of the Northern States. A very interesting and curious tree is 
the cork oak — Q. suber. Its branches are covered with a cork- 
like excrescence that gives to the tree a very unique and singular 
appearance. 
Where the proprietor of a place has a desire for oaks, our 
advice is for him to prepare the ground in the several places 
where the trees are to stand, and then plant the acorns, staking 
around the same to prevent injury to the young plant. If the 
soil is made deep and rich, the plants will grow very rapidly, 
sometimes making four to five feet in a single season. 
Osage Orange — Madura. — The osage orange is generally 
grown for the purpose of forming hedges, but when grown 
singly it makes a tree of medium size, with a regular round 
head, covered with clean glossy foliage and rich golden fruit, 
in appearance resembling the orange of commerce. 
