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
Identifier: arboretumetfrut03loud (find matches)
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Botany; Trees; Forests and forestry
Publisher: London, Printed for the author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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Q. C. 9 Lucombeàna ; Q. Lucombeàna Swt.; Q. exoniénsis Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. The Lucombe Oak, the evergreen Turkey Oak, the Devonshire Oak, the Exeter Oak. (fig. 1714, and figs. 1712, 1713.) —

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Quérctis Cérris Lucombeàna, in its deciduous state, in the Exeter Nursery.
Height 75 ft. ; diameter of trunk 6ft. ; diameter of the head 65 ft.

This variety is subevergreen: it was raised by Lucombe, nurseryman at Exeter, from seeds of the species, sown about 1762. The acorns had been saved from a tree of Mr. Lucombe's own growth; and, when the plants came up, he observed one amongst them that kept its leaves on throughout the winter, to which he paid particular attention, and propagated some thousands of it by grafting. In an account of this variety published in the 62d volume of the Philo sophical Transactions, dated 1772, it is described as "a tree, growing as straight and handsome as a fir, with evergreen leaves, and wood in hardness and strength exceeding that of all other oaks. It makes but one shoot in the year, viz. in May; but this continues growing throughout the summer, not being interrupted, about midsummer, by the pause which occurs between the production of the first and the second shoots, in the case of the common oak. The tree grows so rapidly, that the original specimen, at 7 years old, measured 21 ft. high, and 1 ft. 8 in. in circumference: at 6 years old, a grafted tree was 23 ft. high; and a tree 4 years grafted was 16 ft. high." The shoots are, in general, from 4 ft. to 5 ft. in length; ...

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