Cet ouvrage de référence détaille les arbres et arbustes robustes de Grande-Bretagne, offrant des descriptions scientifiques et populaires de leurs caractéristiques, de leur propagation et de leurs utilisations culturelles. Il comprend des espèces comme le chêne à feuilles persistantes (Quercus ilex), commun dans le sud de l'Europe et dans certaines parties de la Grande-Bretagne.
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. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. Lxx. C'oryla'ce^ : que'rcus. 881. 1610. $. /. latiiolia. In favourable situations, in the South of France, Spain, and Italy, and also in the warmest parts of England and Ireland, the Q. /iex forms a bushy evergreen tree, exceeding the middle size. The trunk is generally furnished with blanches from the ground upwards ; and, being concealed by the dense mass of foliage borne by these branches, the general character of the species, even when fully grown, is that of an immense bush, rather than that of a timber tree. When judiciously pruned, or drawn up by other trees, however, it forms a handsome well-balanced head, on a straight trunk, and with graceful pendent branches. The roots descend to a very great depth, altogether disproportionate to the height of the trunk ; for which reason this oak is never found indigenous to soil with a wet bottom. The bark is black, thin, hard, and even; sometimes slightly furrowed, but never corky. The leaves vary exceedingly in shape and size, from 5 in. in length and nearly 3 in. in breadth (as in Q. I. latifolia and Q. I. ^^gifolia), to 1 in. in length and J in. in breadth (as in Q. I. crispa), or ^ in. in breadth and 3 in. in length (as in Q. I. salicifolia). In some plants, the leaves are prickly, like those of the holly; and, when this is the case, the most prickly are nearest the ground ; a circumstance beautifully exemphfied in a fine tree at Purser's Cross. The colour of the leaves is a dark green ; and, being convex above, and quite smooth, they have a fine shining appearance. In the climate of London, seedling plants grow with considerable rapidity; attaining, in good loamy soil, from 15 ft. to 20 ft. in height in 10 y
