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sturdy tree. We like to play with the acorns and 
cups, and sometimes to eat the meat inside, after the 
acorn has been roasted in the hot ashes of a fire. We 
like to rest under the shade of its branches and to 
climb to its top when the branches are near the ground. 

Fic. 242. Leaves and fruit of Turkey oak. 
In parks and gardens you may see oak trees with 
leaves of a different shape to those of our wild oak. 
These are foreign trees, having their leaf margins 
sharply cut with tapering points. They, too, have 
pendulous catkins of stamen flowers, and bud-like pistil 
flowers. But their acorn-cups differ again in shape, 
