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heard of a ship, built at Dundee, of Stettin 

 timber and Dantzic plank, rotting after three 

 years; has known no such rapid decay in 

 English timber ; thinks the dry rot occurring 

 in the latter is rather an exception than a 

 rule." 



The botanical writers alluded to, are, Ray, 

 Martin, and Sir J. E. Smith, authorities not to 

 be treated lightly, nor by any with impunity. 

 An able writer in the Quarterly Review (No. 

 77, p. 22) advocates the claim of these authors 

 to attention ; yet the advice is unheeded, 

 although the carpenters upon those estates 

 where the sessiliflora and Turkish species 

 are grown, are willing testimonies of the 

 inferiority of the timber, and they fully 

 corroborate this writer and the botanists : on 

 one occasion it was stated, that "a piece of 

 deal might as well be put into the ground, 

 as it would last nearly as long." If a tree 

 of either species is mixed wdth the British 

 kind, in the construction of shipping, the 

 former is likely to be decayed, while the 



