ARNOLD ARBORETUM 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
'.maica 
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vlv^Jr.^ . (City . 
Mr clear Sirs 
I an much obliged to you for sending toe the interesting spec** 
xraen of your Oak, Possibly it may be a hybrid but has it ever sug« 
gested itself to you that it night be Onerous prims? The acorns 
arc very well for that species and we have leaves from New Jersey asd 
a- plant of a tree called Onerous prinus which are : very like yours. If 
it is a hybrid I should suppose it could be between Pinus alba, I 
should lifet to know what sort of bark the tree has* If it is thick, 
darkxcolored, and deeply furrowed, I should not hesitate to call it 
a Chestnut Oak, 
Yours very tru3y, 
