354 Obfervations on the Advantages 
Jent for the tilts and fides of waggons, being 
very light, and yet exceedingly tough and 
pliable. 
The Sattow isa very quick growing pete 
and extremely ufeful where new inclofures are to 
be made, either for the improvement of land or 
raifing plantations, as it makes good ftakes for 
hurdles. fait 
-I cut down one of thefe trees * in the winter, 
five years ago, from the ftool of which, in 
the following autumn, a numerous offspring 
had arifen, fome of which had fhot out to the 
amazing height of ten feet. In the {pring of 
the prefent year, (1793) having occafion for. 
fome hurdles to protect a young hedge of haw- 
thorn juft planted, I cut down thefe fhoots for 
ftakes. They were fomething too flender, but 
anfwered the purpofe tolerably well. No 
wood burns clearer, with a brighter flame, or for 
a, greater 
* From the bark of: this plant in its green ftate, in the 
ear 1788, were made, at Mill-Bank, near Warrington, 
fifteen reams of ftrong paper, It appears from the tefti- 
mony of Mr. Greaves, the maker, that the paper made 
ftom ropes is fold at eight fhillings and fi ixpence the ream ; 
but. that paper made from the bark of the Withen may be 
fold, with equal profit, at five fhillings and eightpence the 
ream: And that pafteboard for book-backs, made from 
ropes, is fold at twenty-five pounds per ton, long weight 
of one hundred and twenty pounds to the hundred ; ‘but 
pafteboard of the fame thicknefs, made from withen-bark, 
tay be fold at feventeen pounds’ per ton, 
