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SWEET CHESTNUT TREE. 



exclusively of heart-wood, with a layer of olburnum, or sapwood, equalling 

 in thickness the breadth ot the bark ; but when suffered to stand beyond 

 its full growth it is, on good authority, the worst of all timber, being more 

 brittle and more apt to crack and fly into splinters than any other."* 



: ' Rev. C. A. Johns in " Forest Trees of Britain." 



THE YOUNG TREE 

 GROWING FROM THE NirT. 



