"Common oak" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the branches are more ascending and the habit altogether more erect; indeed, among the hornbeams this is a counterpart of the fastigiate varieties of the common oak. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various
... on the production of truffles, made to the great "Paris Exposition" of 1855, refers to the "natural truffle-grounds at Vaucluse," where the "common oak produces truffles like the evergreen oak;" although, in other localities, owing no doubt to the different conditions of the soil, those gathered at the base of the one species of oak differ very materially from those gathered at the base of the other. All these ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright |
