316 LIST OF TREES, &C. 3ECT. .X13R- 



%f For underwood amongst forest trees, the usual sorts are 

 alders, ash, beech y birch, hazel, hornbeam, safiojaf,- willow, 

 aijd someiimes the wych-elm, common maple, poplar, and 

 . sycamore. 



OBSERVATIONS ON PARTICULAR, TREES. 



Alders, cuttings of it grow readily, and may be 

 of thick truncheons a yard long, pointed, and thrust 

 into soft ground half way, or into a hole made with 

 an irjon bar. This is the way also to propagate 

 poplars, willows, and sallows ; also elders. . There is 

 a dwarf alder. 



Ask, the American sorts do not grow near so large 

 as the common English. For the ornamental ashes, 

 as the mountain, see the next list. 



Birch is reckoned the worst of timber, yet the 

 wood has its uses in several particular businesses. 

 The American sorts grow much larger than the? Eng- 

 lish. The tree is of that accommodating nature, 

 that it will grow in any soil or situation, wet or dry. 

 It is well known, that a wine is made of its sap, by 

 boring holes in full grown trees in spring, before the 

 leaves come out ; from a number of trees a great 

 deal may be collected. Without being unpleasant:, 

 (if properly made.) birch wine is relished by many, 

 and is reckoned very medicinal in scorbutic, and 

 other complaints.* There is a method of catching 

 the liquor, by putting into the holes (deeply bored) 

 faucets of elder* See next list 



Chesmtt, ornamental. See the next list. 



* Elm, the wych is the quickest grower, and will 



f- It has been the wish of the author to speajc of the me- 

 dical properties of many plants that have occurred in this 

 work, but room could not be ajlowed it. The process, 8cc. 

 of birch wine, with the properties of most plants, will be 

 found in Meyrick's Fqmily Herbal) Svo. a good useful book. 



