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this tree is sweet and wholesome, and in a 

 short time the trunk yields sufficient quantity 

 to brew with; so that with one bushel of malt 

 is made as good ale as four bushels with ordi- 

 nary water. The sycamore has always been 

 esteemed a good fire-wood, which in former 

 ages was no small recommendation, and the 

 timber is valuable for the interior parts of 

 buildings. 



The sj'camore is highly ornamental in rural 

 scenery, particularly in the neighbourhood of 

 plantations of fir and pine, where a few scat- 

 tered trees of this description should always 

 be intermixed to relieve the monotonous ap- 

 pearance of the dark tints of those spiral trees; 

 for in the spring the fine green of the syca- 

 more leaf contrasts as agreeably as its varying 

 foliage is embellishing in the autumn. 



An enormous tree of this kind formerly 

 stood before the Duke of Dorset's seat at 

 Knowle, in Kent, which measured from twelve 

 to fourteen feet in circumference. 



It is not more singular than true, that we 

 find those trees which are best enabled to 

 resist the spray of the sea less frequently 

 planted in those situations than elsewhere. 



The sycamore thrives on the coast when 

 planted there, even better than the elm; for, 

 like the ash, it does not send out its leaves 



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