The timber-tree improved; or, The best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber. And those fruit-trees whose woods make the most profitable returns to their owners - Tapa blanda
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1744 Excerpt: ...beside their Tenderness and loose Lying together, they continue sweet for seven or eight Years long j before which Time, Straw becomes musty and hard. They are thus used by divers Persons of Quality in Dauphiny and Switzerland, and are lain,on with great Refresh menc so as, of this Tree, it may properly be said, she she Wood's a House, the Leaves a Bed: Being pruned, it heals the Scar immediately, and is not apt to put forth so soon again, as other Trees.. The stagnant Water in the hollow Trees cures she most obstinate Tetters, Scabs, and Scurfs inj Man or Beast, fomenting the Part with it; and the Leaves, chewed, are wholesome for the Gums and Teeth. Swine may be driven to Maste, about the End of August. Mr. LawsonV Account of Beech. Beech, he says, in' America, is common, and large, and has a Grain just like that in Europe. The chief Use of this Tree is Fire-wood, because it is not a durable Wood. It produces a sweet Maste % but the Pork, that is fed on it, notwithstanding its Sweetness, is very oily, and should be hardened with Indian Corn, before it is killed. He fays, there is another Sort, called Buckbeech; and now follows my Account of Beech. That there is but one Sort of Beech. As to the Sorts of Beech, I am sensible, that some Authors have concluded there are two 5 the one a Mountain, the other a Vale Beech, distinguished by their white and black Colour: But, for the following Reasons, I cannot help being of Opinion, that there is but one Sort in all for, though there be both black and white-rind Beeches, yet the Infides of both are the fame in Colour, and in Service. Of two Beeches, that grew close to one another, the one had a black Riftd, and the other a white; that, which was the small underling Beech, and shaded by the tall one, was blackish, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1744 Excerpt: ...beside their Tenderness and loose Lying together, they continue sweet for seven or eight Years long j before which Time, Straw becomes musty and hard. They are thus used by divers Persons of Quality in Dauphiny and Switzerland, and are lain,on with great Refresh menc so as, of this Tree, it may properly be said, she she Wood's a House, the Leaves a Bed: Being pruned, it heals the Scar immediately, and is not apt to put forth so soon again, as other Trees.. The stagnant Water in the hollow Trees cures she most obstinate Tetters, Scabs, and Scurfs inj Man or Beast, fomenting the Part with it; and the Leaves, chewed, are wholesome for the Gums and Teeth. Swine may be driven to Maste, about the End of August. Mr. LawsonV Account of Beech. Beech, he says, in' America, is common, and large, and has a Grain just like that in Europe. The chief Use of this Tree is Fire-wood, because it is not a durable Wood. It produces a sweet Maste % but the Pork, that is fed on it, notwithstanding its Sweetness, is very oily, and should be hardened with Indian Corn, before it is killed. He fays, there is another Sort, called Buckbeech; and now follows my Account of Beech. That there is but one Sort of Beech. As to the Sorts of Beech, I am sensible, that some Authors have concluded there are two 5 the one a Mountain, the other a Vale Beech, distinguished by their white and black Colour: But, for the following Reasons, I cannot help being of Opinion, that there is but one Sort in all for, though there be both black and white-rind Beeches, yet the Infides of both are the fame in Colour, and in Service. Of two Beeches, that grew close to one another, the one had a black Riftd, and the other a white; that, which was the small underling Beech, and shaded by the tall one, was blackish, ...
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