THEIR PROPERTIES, &C. 79 



and for the tool-cutter, the cabinet-maker, and 

 turner, it is in univerfal demand. It makes ex- 

 cellent fuel, whether as faggots or billets ; and is 

 much ufed for the making of charcoal, and for 

 the fmoaking of herrings. 



The Purple Beech, is a fine ornamental variety, 

 and even promifes to become fit for the decoration 

 of the park, although it has hitherto been chief- 

 ly confined to the pleafure ground. A tree of the 

 purple variety in the gardens of Meffrs Telfords, 

 within the walls of the city of York, and another 

 in the pleafure ground at Enville, have nftiirncc 

 fuch tree-like forms, each being fully thirty ten. 

 high, that fuch an expectation may reafonably be 

 entertained; and the more efpecially, as wekno\vol" 

 feveral even in Scotland from twenty to thifty feet 

 high. It mufl however beobferved, that (he pur- 

 ple beech plants, mod: proper for the park or the 

 lawn, or indeed for any fituation where it is 

 required that they grow to a great fize, are fuch 

 as are grafted or budded on the common fort. 

 Thofe raifed by layers, grow more dwarf; and 

 therefore mould be planted in fituation s where 

 dwarf trees, or bufhes, are required. 



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