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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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in countries where the tree is indigenous. None are in cultivationin British gardens under any particular name : but their leaves, in differentplaces, the cork trees having been all raised from seed, will be found to varym magnitude, in length relatively to breadth, and in the character of theirmargins, which are either wavy, serrate, or dentate. The most strikingvariety which we have seen is at Muswell Hill, and is represented at^g.179G. of the natural size ; Jig. 1795. representing a specimen of the species,also from a tree at Muswell Hill. This viu-iety diflers so remarkably fromthe species, that some consider it as Q,. Pseudo-iSuber : but that species,according to Bosc, the Xouveau Du Hamcl, and the plants in the Horticul-tural .Societys Garden and at Messrs. Lodiligess, is deciiledly deciduous ;and, in its buds and mossy cups, has more the character of y. Ccrris than ofQ. «Siiber. We acknowledge, however, that the leaves of the plant at J 912 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICKTUW. PART 111.
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Muswell Hill bear a considerable resemblance, both in form and size, to thefigure of Q. Pseiido-»Suber given in the Nouv. Du Hamel, and of which ^g.1801. is a reduced copy. The tree at Muswell Hill has ripened acorns, butnot lately, and the character of their cups is forgotten; otherwise we shouldat once be able to decide to which section it belongs. The trunk is coveredwith a corky bark, which has exactly the appearance of that of thetrue cork tree in the same garden; but the cork is only 2 in. or 2^ in. indepth, while in the true cork tree it is more than 3 in. deep. Whether thisis a vaiiety or a species, it is, at all events, so decidedly distinct in thefoliage, and, as the plate in our last Volume will show, forms such a very-handsome evergreen tree, that it well merits a place in collections. Whenwe saw the trees (May 5. 1837), both were in full foliage; but we wereinformed that the variety lost its leaves generally before the other. Our CHAP. CV. corylace;e. que rcus. 191: draw

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