BIOGRAPHY. 



that weather does not injure wen-seasoned i 

 wont to point to certain posts, gates, and o 

 made of oak, which had never been paintec 

 had been in the open air for some seven ha 

 and were perfectly sound. The oak doors of 

 are fully seven hundred yeazs old. They are 

 torn with musket-baHs, but are still free from 



When he had new doors made which wocli 

 to the weather he used every precaution to keep tie v~- 

 from lodging in them. Xo panels were seen on ~f :-:*: 

 side, which was as smooth as it could be made. Tie 

 ixmntm* were bound with strong iron, painted bef-cre i~ -** 

 put on. 



Xo matter how well-seasoned the wood might be. i 

 doors were made of deal, three years were allowed -..;< 

 elapse before painting, whfle, if of oak. :: WAS ^Tri 

 jamfr" 1 until six years had passed, and very orr-en TTI.? - : : 

 painted at aH It is also found that if holes were tomred 

 transversely into posts* so as to allow free entrance : : ilr. 

 the dry-rot scarcely ever made its appearance. If modern 

 builders would act upon a knowledge of tMs fact :Lry 

 would render our houses, roofs of buildings, ic, far more 

 enduring than they are at present. 



DID we wish to show the wonderful command which 

 Waterton had over trees, we need only point to the holly- 

 trees in his park. The holly was a great favourite of his, 

 as it is very hardy when property planted, possesses a 

 beauty of its own, affords shelter for buds in 

 wen as summer, and can be formed into a hedge 



to and beast. 

 As to laurel hedges, Waterton never would plant them, Lar&- 

 and he had found by experience that in ordinary hawthorn 

 hedges a bush would often die without any apparent 



