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to be determined, but experience convinces me, 

 that afh, thus planted, will never become timber of 

 any value, as the roots muft perifh before the tree 

 arrives to perfection. 



Afli trees in dairy plots are nuifances, as their 

 leaves make the butter rancid and worthlefs ; 

 mixed with beeches in an open grove, they run to 

 great lengths, are free-cleft, and make valuable 

 timber. ^ Coach-makers, wheelwrights, &c. like 

 the fhafts when a little bent, more than when per-r 

 fedlly ftraight. The cooper has no objedlion to 

 ^e latter, 



Beech. 



The propagation of Beech is flrongly to be re- 

 commended as a free-grower, and applicable to 

 many ufeful purpofes. It faves oak (as before 

 mentioned) in planking Ihips bottoms, and in ring- 

 ing mill-wheels ; its clofe grain and firm texture 

 render it unparalleled in water-works of all kinds, 

 for when conflantly kept wet, it appears as per- 

 fectly found at forty years end,* as when firft 

 immerfed. The mortices and tenents chafed by 

 the influx and eflux of water will in time be 'the 



• Of this I have had frequent proof, having known the fame 

 becchen cell, when turned, and frefh morticed, laft two wiers, and 

 {bund enough afterwards to make the plating of anouthoufe. 



