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to be troubled with lung disease and Hectique (con- 

 sumption). 



Coal-ashes mixed with clay, of which bricks, Tegel, 

 are made, will make the brick or tile much stronger and 

 firmer than the clay by itself. 



The same ash carried on to ploughed clay-lands, ler- 

 grund. akrar, makes a matchless manure. Farmers, 

 Landtman, who live many miles from London, buy it 

 and carry it home a long way to manure their arable 

 with it. In gardens it is said also to be very good and of 

 the greatest possible service. 



The 14th March, 1748. 



Agrifolium (Ray Syn. 466). Holly is a tree which 

 especially occurs in the woods in England, and with its 

 evergreen leaves makes them beautiful even in mid- 

 winter. The wood is used for toys for children, also for 

 knife-handles, because it is hard. Coachmen's whip- 

 handles, Kuskarnas piske-skaft, are made mostly of 

 this wood ; for it is at the same time flexible. The prin- 

 cipal use which they make of this tree is for hedges, 

 which are both thick and beautiful, and last almost for 

 ever. Mr. Warner told me he knew a person whose 

 father, [T. I. p. 165] sixty or more years ago, had had 

 all the hedges round his property planted with this tree, 

 which hedges are still, at the present time, so thick that 

 a dog cannot get through them. A holly-hedge has be- 

 fore all others the palm in this, that it retains its green 

 and beautiful leaves both winter and summer, and is thus 

 a good shelter for sheep and other cattle against blasts 

 and bad weather. Bird-lime is made from the bark. In 

 woodless districts it is also used for fuel. 



The 15th March, 1748. 



Faren. Sheep in England seem almost to be more 



