The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 555
measures, with its footstalk, rather morethan loin, in length, by 5 in. in breadth. Now, looking onlyat these two sets of individual or specimen leaves, any one mightnaturally expect that the tree which bore the latter of the twowould afford the handsomest foliage. But the very reverse isthe case;… … 534 Bemarks on Oak Folia&e. and the leaves below it were gathered has long ago attracted myattention, as presenting, on the whole, by far the handsomestfoliage of any oak inits immediate neighbour-hood. The leaves are ofa dark deep green ; and,though rather small (andsmall leaves combine…
