. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . U Michaux, is u talltree, rising, in marshyground, to the heightof 80 ft., with a trunk3 ft. or 4 ft. in diame-ter. Its secondarybranches are more
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . U Michaux, is u talltree, rising, in marshyground, to the heightof 80 ft., with a trunk3 ft. or 4 ft. in diame-ter. Its secondarybranches are moreslender and numerousthan is common on solarge a tree, and arcintermingled, so as togiveit,atadistancc,thea[)pearance of beinglull of pins. This sin-gular disposition ren-ders it distinguishableat first sight in winter,and, is perha[)s, thecause of its being call-ed the pin oak. ( Syl., i. p. 101.)Thetree,when young,assumes an agreeable pyramidal shape; and its far-extending droopingbranches, and light and elegant foliage, render it, in our opinion, the mostgraceful of all oaks. The bark on the oldest trees of Q. paliistris is scarcelyever cracked : on young trees it is perfectly smooth. The wood is coarse-grained, and roscmbles that of the red oak. In the climate of London, thetree is remarkably haidy; and its rate of growth is much more rapid than thatof every other .fVmerican oak, with the single e.\ctplion of (^.ainbigua. This muv. .T ^^ 1888 ARBOnETLM AND FRUTICETUM PART 111 be rendered obvious at a glance,by inspecting the line of oaks atMessrs. Loddigess, where thereare three trees, marked Q. palus-tris, Q. Banisteri, and Q. montana,(all of which are the Q. palustris ofMichaux,) which are above 30 , which is several feet higherthan all the others, with the singleexception of Q. anibigua. A tree(,fig. 1761.) of this species in theHorticultural Societys Garden,which had been overtopped withelms, in the manner already men-tioned (p. 1864.), has lost itsleader,
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