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DIFFERENT SORTS OF TIMBER TREES. 



As Mr. Longhurst had travelled, and seen < 

 many of those trees abroad, of which others of | 

 us had only been able to obtain representa- | 

 tions and descriptions, I was requested still to 

 lead the conversation respecting Bintish timber 

 trees ; and reserve the account foreign woods 

 for him. 



There are/' I said, when we next met, 

 about twenty-five different sorts of timber 

 trees grown in Britain, for the varied occasions 

 of man. These are, the Oak, the Ash, the 

 Aspen, the Elm, the Beech, the Lime, the 

 Chestnut, the Walnut, the Sycamore, the 

 Poplar, the Plane, the Maple, the Hornbeam, 



