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my garden. The posts and horizontal rails were of sound larch, and 

 the upright bars were of spruce. This upright paling with little repairs 

 stood proof against hares and rabbits for twenty-one years. 



I have a]so used spruce piles in river embankments, where under 

 the surface of the embankment they were constantly in moisture. 



After being twenty years in use, a heavy flood washed away 

 part of the embankments and laid the piles bare to within eighteen 

 inches of their points, and to my agreeable astonishment the piles 

 were as entire below the surface as they were the day they were put 

 in, only the timber was very blue. 



I could enumerate many other puiposes for which spruce timber 

 is admirably adapted, as well as for the foregoing purposes. 



[We shall be pleased to receive further communications on this important 

 Bubject, the Uses of Home-grown Timber, from our esteemed contributor, and 

 Others.— Ed. J. F.] 



