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Title: 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
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees Shrubs Plants
Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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CHAP. CV. CORYLACKyE. QUercUS. 1628 1781
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views of the same trunk. A smaller tree, growing near this one, and repre-sented hyb, has the junction of the trunks nearer the ground. Another spe-cimen, growing near a farm-house, is represented by d; and a fourth one by c.All these oaks are within a sliort distance of each other; and Mr. Bree thinksthe trunks were probably joined artificially by some one who had a fancy forsuch experiments. They are all of the species Q. pedunculata. The figuresare to a scale of 1 in. to 12 ft. Oaks conjoined with other Trees. The oak being a tree of great duration,and its trunk, in the course of years, spreading wider than that of manytrees, not unfrequently grows round the stems of trees which grow close byit; or, its trunk becoming hollow, and the head being broken off by storms,other trees frequently spring up within it, and produce a flourishing head en-cased with an oak trunk. Hence, we have an oak conjoined with an ash nearthe lake at Welbeck, figured in Rookes Remarkable Oaks, &c., pi.

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