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SEPTEMBER 4, 1 
Se mis country. 
tbe of this country, 
4s. Government in favour of retaining the 
bee Majesty's Gons in Great Russell Street, as part of 
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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
669 
renjer jer several-storied buildings was expen- 
ur Continental national 
of them, I cannot but 
rarely takes pla 
in summer, Ieavyı rs very ugly gaps; 
5 
net Sighi I think to hear all abont 
each other, ha 
Fitz- “Stephen, an declare 
Your 
-house failure, for I dare say it is nota yr 
mt. y friend d 
winter ‘ 
| Hon. Dain 
that he states ay the 
the forests 
near Lo 
The iat at issue, the use of Chesnut 
mooted so early as the y years 1769 and Bye in the 
pages of the “ Phil pened Am Transact ” when the 
vibe a arrin gto took up anes question, He also 
Bit 
heey i ince you sent me the specimen a of supposed 
timber, was 
seringe the t 
vhi and of J 
fair given to th 
ward: that in spite of 
an only § 
a op cheng and signed in ina hurry, | | 
house Sal day, a trees 
were much scorched. _ As my house was of t 
Inn T gta e been e pains to examine into the 
authorities for the es rinig vor te with regard to this 
being an indigenous tree. I remember Rena once been 
present myself when a wager on this head 1 was won; it 
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Soar ic unworthy of the state of 
this co . What do thej% 
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fossil fish, 
eminently ‘tating wished. 
ists 
That m 
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my and individually, I hold them in high 
ave done their sen Se er hitherto by all | 
ions en’ heir caré, and are 
warmest thanks of rey cultivator of 
edge; but that a large body of scientifie 
ra, nd 
gs 
p 
ly supported their 
ment and in the jals A Country 
ava HOUSES 
TE Lapa leaving ı me more | 
y be entirely dispensed with for the cul- 
oul Nectarines, and Apricots, They are 
part expensive zi amnes sph like see 
= pria coaches, w years 
for the poor under gardeners 
Ee fruit- fo wall in the Kingdom 
except wasg ap! appro priated to 
re but little w 
“ig po Bigs in uary an 
incipient Pami Neee ~ gi 
of 
my trees 
| at ac and had the trees looked at. They 
fou 
| “thought iP = not | not require s M r nn ayn EM and 
grow 
t | that he 
| trees is Pakel, for this se 
wn? oa ve chad Peaches are of the size of Walnuts 
l 
my, 
should absolutely court a Srbce | him 
| educating gar 
STA were all in the most vigorous health, I 
were 
nd to be smothered Med oo cored co then it 
came out that the garden words | 
The 
season, and to a atta 
had ni of the 
Men ancient house in Chan ncery Lane, was of this wood, 
hich out to nothing but com 
When you oe her specimen from Clifford's Tan in 
my hands, I kne immediately to be on 
i's Oak.” 
Ducarel,” he continues, “in his iB 
Antiquities’ p- 96, endeavours to prove = ho te re 
ge ores rcha: ease, and I hav A 
gentleman ving in Serre, a Short distance pore Lon- 
still coptinues a large a = ye door An near ‘at. 
tingbourne, in Kent. I found, i 
on, gave his 
read te: ‘for he e wis ished to have an = de house. 
pia 
Gent. aW ? It 
Gard. “Its = nonsense, m can’t be ~ 
well; I only tell you ef shail be | 
as now an orchard house managed 
gardener ‘and delighting in 
ti 
about, provir 
tac They are proba 
arles I, estmins' 
Hal, Boston Church, “i many comes consist of this 
wood; not because any one hath found it to be so on 
examination, but because there are no cobw 
such roo Sometimes, also, to acco’ 
harbouring in them, it is supposed 
of the 
its nets, the eq 
the trouble of spreading e flies cannot 
ex than a fowler will lay his ahr in a place 
where there is no resort of birds. No fly is paroii 
l of light 
arpi ee more vexatio 
t jfi oaii How much it is to be lamented 
and sunshine, consequently a wide widen roof is the 
its snare in ; 
that some institution does not exis 
a whitewashed place would be selected by them in 
rdeners “or the = aa ranks of the a 
class, so that what are called “single-handed p! 
could be filled by competent men. 
A 5 o 
In my ‘ ra 
= Ducarel, in reply, says, ngle 
Se i x jor re again visited my neighbour’ 
His Pe so large as mine, 
ti ved th ay th ce of juice and delicate 
tiq quities’ Thad d that man Nor- 
mandy, when pulled down, are found to have a great 
ta eal ¢ of Che snut timber ork Serin as there are not 
rmandy, , the inhabit- 
an = mine Ano It was s the same last year, 
ippy Lover of Orchard Houses. 
e, near ar gs in hae shire, mn 
res 
land. 
| En with Chesnut, whic h pr obab' ly grew on the es 
NOTES ON THE ASSUMED USE OF CHESNUT 
TIMBER IN THE CARPENTRY OF OLD 
pona 
wild in n that part o co ing 
houses in py por ot Glovester "tee tho Rey, Mr. 7 Craw w- 
t he has often been assured)[!] are 
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ae 
in pars 
n io = gt we hee wae over soa ‘over Taen 
ata 
‘Chesnut, d 
In some of the 
tion that Spanish Chesnut wood was peels employed 
Te 
n the cultivation of fruits against | 
ative would be the ee of the 
brick 
y 
T | gladly avail ourselves of further vs Sg a land before 
worth, | Oal 
in thi et we 
the Institute of Architects by Mr. Wyatt Pap 
We have, erin been obli <n the 
we hem reported 
state- 
ith the th the flowing 
oldest houses of Faversham 
trees in the forest sede ep 
h genuine Chesnut as 
th Chesnut ; 
the 
eason a for my eroana hen nt 
by com- 
ting 
e paper on Fir which you kindly received at the 
conmoncenent of this session, | the ienei on 
P out val declares that during the repairs of 
Lr, . Thorpe declares 
“the old h at recast in Stockbury (near Maid- 
h my neighbour's S0 
pan and h 
n to | ston 
one, ia RADA r, besides other timbers, 
iei 
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pe 
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miden a ~ st re oe sine of 
mentioned in several articles of Hi Dict allay ee 
pared for the Architectural Publication Society, 
often eee at of Ces 
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padent thin mine, whieh acta this 
lange. and remarkably good. My n neigh- | 
is| nists, Having made se: miries, abe having 
heard the result of others, ia a ing ry to believe that 
J 
ly ripened too rapidly owing ; to the | hot 
Un 
ae eee wt Si is generally attributed to have 
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ings, canvass, and other =f o tho |w 
crop lat, either by being over-protected so that the | t 
Nettie 
ie 
caltivated 
my orchard-house trees 
been most luscious and j 
which are to = 
which gave a ri 
Juicy, unlike those 
a 
1 a 
i of Queen Elizabeth, | 
past, o = Sallow, msme W, 
Yet 
Harrison, ing in = 
ay mentions yan use, in tim 
tre ardbea’ aer Elm, « and 
other. Mine rem: the trees t 
and gome were ike tag of syrup, the 
them i Si a stream on the least pressure. 
ay wn 
Gabil an 
orchard 
bushes or half standa ards with good 
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THH 
th t 
contrary b become in a f 
aa is Hoar pant pract me Å amii af root-pra: 
e 
fel “pul a good part ser our ancient housés 
ng years, even whilst quota the 
above pae nä. iis from this author, ean 
that Chesnut timber was largely used in earlier 
for bailing. 
xt after by the nd joi oiner. 
f Lond coin dea et appear. Thad on nit 
ve 
yak ote | 
renee bota- Chesnu ut, w 
used for timber, at least in the larg’ "i | 
were mi meei and the nto to = 
Chesn’ a s entirel 
the em same wood. The curious helgi 
the inaha house at Lesnes (near Erith; i in perna is of 
which, no doubt, was felled in the abbey 
s to the assistance of Ducare! Ducarel, and mena 
ings (he means buildings in 
is wood, which in all oes 
the 
biel 
ave been 
the two coun’ antries.”  “ Oak 
ae from mare in the rings and 
ae that i it is 
sturdy and most prolific trees 
et te w will be be indispensable i in all jargo |an 
have much trouble wad e gp 
precarious crop; in spi 
the frost 
d +hat 
off for want of air, 
h the pro 
mate: 
are liable to 
suffer from a sort 
| i it is ‘al roma w 
— come 
Ches 
wat ‘ittle, 
it be true true that the 
ee 
t trees h 
from which lar, 
rge branches die off suddenly 
| danger by a certain crac crackling.” Many w 
the 
be Oak, it weil sit a vt faeghow outwardly i 
rotten within; bnt a is in 
of hi 
prone, that, being si some- | 0 
they” ove: warning and premonish the 
titers, copying 
i a m e 
. Michan’s Church, Dei 
ners Chronicle, in the library 
that the faire gri 
tomontowne Green 
was all wood, 
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