. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXX. CORYLA^CEiE : QUE'HCUS. 851 S Q,. f). 5 heterophylla. Q. ialicifolia Hort., Q. laciniata Lod. Cat., Q. /ili- cifolia Hort., Q. Fennessi Hort. (Our _/%. 1S44.) — In this variety the leaves vary exceedingly in magnitude, in shape, and in being lan- ceolate and entire, cut at the edges
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXX. CORYLA^CEiE : QUE'HCUS. 851 S Q,. f). 5 heterophylla. Q. ialicifolia Hort., Q. laciniata Lod. Cat., Q. /ili- cifolia Hort., Q. Fennessi Hort. (Our _/%. 1S44.) — In this variety the leaves vary exceedingly in magnitude, in shape, and in being lan- ceolate and entire, cut at the edges, or deeply laciniated. t. Q. p. 6 folUs vatiegatis Lodd. Cat. — Leaves variegated with white, with some streaks of red. When finely grown, a very ornamental tree. ¥ Q,. p. 1 purpurea, — Young shoots, and the foot- stalks of the leaves, tinged with purple. Young leaves, when they first come out, ahnost entirely purple, and very striking. A tree, which is among the oaks what the purple beech is among the beeches. There is a specimen 30 ft. high at Arno's Grove, Southgate. Other Varieties. Q. p. HodgfnsM, Q. p. cinerea, and Q. p. dulcis are described in our first edition. The varieties of British oaks which might be selected from extensive woods of that ti ee are without end. Quercus pedunculata, both in Britain and on the Continent, is generally found on better soil than Q. sessiliflora ; and its wood splits more easily, and is lighter, than the wood of that species. In France, the chene-a-grappes is always planted in preference to the chene-rouvre, where the soil is sufficiently good. When both oaks are planted together in good soil, the red oak (Q. sessiliflora) outgrows the white oak (Q. pedunculata) j and, when either oak grows on particular descriptions of soils, with bad subsoils, the wood assumes a brown or dark colour, and is found, when worked up, to be of comparatively short duration. Hence, a good deal of confusion has arisen as to the com-
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