The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . teOaks growing near them were extremely poor. When I wrote the former paper I could havebrotight forward any number of Continentalinstances of this failure of the pedunculate Oakon dry soil, but I preferred to have a goodexample of it from our own country. There arespots, as in Sussex, where both Oaks thriveequally well, as they do in the Ardennes, but thesoil is then generally loamy ; and Mr. T. Roberts,of Midhurst, has sent me a photograph of bothsessile and pedunculate Oaks from the Midhurstwoods,
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . teOaks growing near them were extremely poor. When I wrote the former paper I could havebrotight forward any number of Continentalinstances of this failure of the pedunculate Oakon dry soil, but I preferred to have a goodexample of it from our own country. There arespots, as in Sussex, where both Oaks thriveequally well, as they do in the Ardennes, but thesoil is then generally loamy ; and Mr. T. Roberts,of Midhurst, has sent me a photograph of bothsessile and pedunculate Oaks from the Midhurstwoods, both in thriving condition. I am not,however, sure that the tree on the right (fig. 05) is,as Mr. Roberts says, a well-marked sessile Oak,though that on the left is a true pedunculateOak. In all woods where the Oaks flourish sideby side, intermediate varieties appear, and thislarge Midhurst Oak appears to me, from itsfoliage, to be an intermediate variety. Owing to its thicker and harder bark, thesessile Oak does not produce epicormic branchesso readily as the pedunculate Oak, and this is. Fig. 6J.—oaks from chatsworth. another reason for its comparative immunity fromstagheadedness on dry soils. It is more liableto frost-crack, and to have its foliage frozen, thanthe pedunculate Oak, and for this reason alsoprefers hillsides, where cold air does not stag-nate, to low, damp, cold situations. The facts Ihave stated about the acorns of the two Oaksalso correspond with those of the Ilex and CorkOaks, both of which grow in hot, dry situations,where the acorns require shelter from the sun,and they are consequently sheltered by the foliageof these trees ; and those of the latter are almostsessile, while the bracts on the cups are alwaysmore developed in these Oaks, as well as in the
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