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If I had an expansive wet site where tree size were no object, I would plant a swamp chestnut oak, a sycamore, a blackgum or even one of the improved varieties of red maple.

Among the speedy oaks are the common red and willow oaks, but others include the overcup oak, the shingle oak, the swamp chestnut oak and the Nuttall oak.

She could discriminate among the twigs and branches of chestnut oak, tulip poplar, white pine, and so forth, as I could not.

Planted around the gallery are chestnut oak, cherry, redwood, plum, magnolia.

Original plantings of white pine and hemlocks have faded, and the dominant trees are white and chestnut oaks, tulip poplar and American beeches.