Pogegiod 
ArticLte XIX. 
The Horfe and Sweet Chefnut, and the Black ; 
Willow, recommended for Planting. 
[In a Letter to the Secretary, by Benyamin Pucn, efg; 
of Midford-Caftle. } 
MR. SECRETARY, 
y WAS fo much pleafed and entertained at our 
laft meeting, with the two judicious and fen- 
fible letters that were then read, refpecting timber 
in general, and the care of woods, that I beg leave 
to add my {mall mite, hoping the fociety may 
think it worthy of their notice. 
IT am furprifed thefe gentlemen, who feem to be 
fo well verfed in the comparative value of timber 
trees, take little, if any, notice of the horfe chefnut, 
and /weel chefuut which trees make exceeding good 
timber, are certain and quick growers in every kind 
of foil, and the beauty of the flowers of the former 
quite equal to the moft beautiful fhrub in the gar- 
den; and as for the duration of the timber, efpecially 
the {weet chefnut in the dry, it is equal to the oak; 
I have feena large barn that was built of this timber, 
which had ftood fome hundred years, and all per- 
fectly found. 
In thickening, or new planting coppice-woods, 
I fhould prefer the horfe chefnut with the black 
withey (as it is called in this country) to any other 
kinds 
