. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. ees recordedin various parts ofBritain, for theirenormous dimensi-ons, age, and otherpeculiarities, the va-riety or species towhich they belong,has, in many cases,never been mention-ed or to somewriters, the , is saidto have a more lofty and pyramidal growth than the :; but this, judging from the various specimenswe have examined, the characteristic drawings of , and the excellent outlinesof both kinds figured in the Ar-boretum Britannicum, does notappear a character u
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. ees recordedin various parts ofBritain, for theirenormous dimensi-ons, age, and otherpeculiarities, the va-riety or species towhich they belong,has, in many cases,never been mention-ed or to somewriters, the , is saidto have a more lofty and pyramidal growth than the :; but this, judging from the various specimenswe have examined, the characteristic drawings of , and the excellent outlinesof both kinds figured in the Ar-boretum Britannicum, does notappear a character upon whichmuch dependance can be states his belief that noimportant or constant differenceexists between the mode of growth of the two kinds, because, he observes, we have found individuals ofthe one species, as pyramidal, fastigiate, or orbicular, aswe have found any of the other;1 and the Bev. W. , who writes in the Gardeners Magazine* uponthe Quer. sessiUJlora and its varieties, remarks, that there * Gardeners Magazine, vol. xii. p. 248 is little difference in the general form and outline ofthe two trees when full grown, at the same time he feels that there is a certain indescribable something about thetrees, by means of which he can always distinguish each,without examining either the acorns or leaf-stalks. A close examination, we allow, of the two kinds, atleast of trees where the peculiar characters of each aremost distinctly developed, shows a difference, both in thenaked tree and when clothed with leaves, that to thepractised eye becomes appreciable and readily recognised;thus, we find that in Quer. sessiliflora, the growth of thespray, or branching, is freer and less tortuous than inQuer. pedunculata, that the leaf-buds are larger, and thebark in general much whiter in colour; the leaves, also,when expanded, are usually larger, and from the lengthof their petioles hang more loosely, and present a lesstufted appearance than they do i
Size: 1477px × 1692px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840, booksubjectforestsandforestry
