The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . rings; and he attributes their thus ap|)earing to the excitement ofelectricity. The above remarks, sufficiently heterogeneous in themselves,are not offered as any attempt at elucidating the subject which Mr. Mer-ricks query has excited, but as dues and considerations attached tothe subject, which any correspondent will nuich oblige us by fartherevolving. — A remarkable Varicfi/ of the Common Oafc.— Sir, Herewith I transmit toyou specimens of a singular variety of the common oak (Quercus Ruhwr),the peculiarity of which
The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . rings; and he attributes their thus ap|)earing to the excitement ofelectricity. The above remarks, sufficiently heterogeneous in themselves,are not offered as any attempt at elucidating the subject which Mr. Mer-ricks query has excited, but as dues and considerations attached tothe subject, which any correspondent will nuich oblige us by fartherevolving. — A remarkable Varicfi/ of the Common Oafc.— Sir, Herewith I transmit toyou specimens of a singular variety of the common oak (Quercus Ruhwr),the peculiarity of which consists in the leaves being long, narrow, andfor the most part destitute of the usual indentations so characteristic ofoak foliage. {Jig. 152. a.) You will observe that the leaves occa-. sionally evince a tendency, more or less, to indentation {b and r),especially those placed lowest on the shoot, the first that arc ex-painled in the season: these are often of the usual form (</), and wholesprays, indeed, are to be iound on the tree, bearing nothing but theordinary foliage. The oak which proiluced the above s|)eciniens is ayoimg growing tree, measuring, at breast high, little more than .} ft. incircumference ; it stands in a hedgerow, by the side of a lane, in thisparish, and, I should judge, is of spontaneous growth. Though I havefor many years been in the frequent habit of passing within a few yardsof the tree, I never remarked any thing extraordinary in its foliage till lastsummer. Some acorns which I gathcretl from the tree last autumn havecome up this spring, and bear the ordinary foliage, without exhibiting anyof the peculiarities of the |)arent. Is the above variety worth propagating? Provincial Nurseries. 74-1 and if so, what is the best method to adop
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