"Dwarf oak" Quotes from Famous Books
... husbandry that can penetrate such a soil as this, has entered here; and I am sorry, for the primitive vegetation has disappeared. No more thyme, no more lavender, no more clumps of kermes oak, the dwarf oak that forms forests across which we step by lengthening our stride a little. As these plants, especially the first two, might be of use to me by offering the Bees and Wasps a spoil to forage, I am compelled to reinstate them in the ground whence ... — The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... thing, Tom. Just a continuation of those same old dwarf oak trees. But why do you ask that? What's the matter ... — Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic • Charles Amory Beach |