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DECIDUOUS TREES. 
The Laurel-leaved Oak, Q. p. laurifolia , is similar to the 
foregoing, but with larger leaves. Found principally in the 
southern States. 
The Shingle Oak, Q. imbricaria, is a species with smooth- 
edged, elliptic, pointed, glossy leaves, similar in form to the leaf of 
the chionanthus. It is a native of the middle States, especially the 
neighborhood of the Alleghanies, and becomes a tree forty to fifty 
feet in height. From Michaux’ description we infer that it would 
be a desirable oak to introduce in small grounds. 
The Live Oak. Q. virens .—Unfortunately this magnificent 
evergreen of our southern coast is too tender to flourish far north 
of the Gulf of Mexico. It is a tree of medium height only, but of 
immense and grand expansion of trunk and branches. A writer 
in Lippincott’s Magazine mentions a specimen on the Habershaw 
plantation near Savannah, Georgia, which has an extension of one 
hundred and fifty feet between the extremities of its branches ! A 
traveller mentions one at Goose Creek, near Charleston, S. C., the 
trunk of which measures forty-five feet in circumference close to the 
ground, eighteen and a half feet in its smallest part, with a branch 
which measured twelve and a half feet in girt! It is one of the 
grandest trees of the continent, as well as the most valuable of all 
for ship-timber. 
Foreign Oaks. 
The British Oak. Q. pedunculata and Q. sessiflora. —These 
varieties of the white oak group are so nearly the same as our 
white oak, that it is not necessary to describe them separately. But 
some odd varieties have come into existence, among which are the 
following : 
The Moccas Oak, Q. p. pendula , is a variety of the British oak, 
as pendulous as the weeping willow; and of course a great curiosity. 
It is said there are none of this sort in this country. An extraor- 
