424, OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
is fine-grained, hard, and susceptible of polish, and 
is put to many uses of the cabinet-maker—making, 
amongst other things, excellent charcoal. 
Its brown autumnal fruit—which, when in a 
state of half decay, has a flavour not unlike that 
of the Medlar—adds to the beauty of its decaying 
leaves of yellow-tinted brown. 
