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Show 708 SCOTCH SCOTCH FiR, FIR. i if it were only substituting what ils for the sake ofpenis c experience, to the palate than the com. g agreeable n much more ild bebe so so much would mon turpentines. PY lil , Copy of toee A. B. Lambert, Esq. from viMr, Thomas py, 2 a Letter gid Til lative Davis, of Hommingsham, Wilts, relative totc the Timber yielded Ly various Species of Pines, “fh ey ¥ y . . Lt hc aaa. : Hommingsham, Sept. 9, 1797. i r speater observatio servations, ofthat Dear Sir, Iam convinced, from repeated deal, dt i eerie . produces the deal called in Londonyellow fir theexScotch i z and in imported from g rec deal, and being generally rtry red the country , They2 frequently sometimes called Christiana deal. dez _ -alled Christiana tit i ,Christiana, i ftener in i oards, calle called a twelve come hither in planks, but oftener boards, inches wide, though seldom above ten inches and half, on oli and through, : I sawyers ryers call callit,it, cut cu fletoh. ae through and or, as the course the trees are not above twelve inches diameter, and ye ir rings, rings, and and found their their grow growth to aan be from I have counted their found sixty to a hundred years. They erefore ggrowthickfeto‘They m must therefore sth 5 and upon poor ; ¢ is iis s ae also evic gether, or rocky land, andthis P proceedi from the e wéwant of room bby the smallness of the knots,35 proceeding rong boughs. chs to5 push out strong ae i equal to the foreign in The Scotch fir raised in England is weight and durability, but is seldom so fine in the grain, growth, ’ occarapid i its rapid o its i a owingto it of sap has ee a greater quantity Aes ya JUL @istu z sulin . , H 7 bs . 3 an . SAN L Jand. or greate: sioned : either by the. superior strength of, thee Jand, g | } +. re quality quality isIs suflione another, But the listance from fr ; or both. i i the sar same species. ciently simiar similar totO as ascertain ee the I cientiy 4 a ‘4 ir, Engli rown, and moderately A foot square ofPSSco nglish grown, a kasi j af fi Y 0 2 f much dry, will weigh fiftyeone; a foot of oak not much more n sixty-one, 2. vs h epmati a the A\ tree of a hundred years old ({ lookc upon j i n B ‘i nore than a hundred and ods ill of its growth in England as not more than ah ee two hundred feet, and is fair. may measure four load, or + two feet, and fifteen pounds. 1 with Scotch Land planted viz. ps six hundred and forty oh quarter ap apart, si feet and14a quarter will pay ten per cent = 7 sree.dpe shillings compoundinterest, supposing very four pounds perar acre acre, worthh ¢about four | ( in fee, anc | the planting wentya al tani aside wemacten 4EnaNee ome pounds more, in all ten pounds per ue cost six | sd interes eight years ten pounds, at compound interest, f a pounds, ounds and in that period th each, will be worth eighty wi pe ve A at only two ane SI xpence 799 Spruce firs, from which the deal we usual ly call white deal in Engla 5 nd is } produced, > are I perhaps the next valuable to Scotch fir:3 I and, what is remarkable, those grown in Engla nd are superior to any imported. That kindof tree not being hurt by knots, is the better for rapid growth, and the deal the handsomer. But it does not growwell in exposed situations. It there losesall its side branches, and not growing from leade rs as a Scotchfir does, gets mossy, lingers, and dies: andif put close together, it never rises to any size. Perhaps it may be two or thre e loadin one hundred years, worth seven or eight pounds, but a hundred years seem to be the full ultimatumof its growth. It is in fact fitfor nothing but a garden, where it is a prettything for twenty orthirty years, when it grows naked , and shou Id be removed and replaced by others. The silverfir, the most beautiful in extern al appearance of all the genus, either youngorold, grow s muchfaster thanejther the Scotch or spruce. At one hundredyears oldit is frequently above a hundred feet high, tw ‘elve orthirteen feet round, and containsat least six lo ads oftimber, worth about fifteen pounds. The.timber is more © pen, or, as the sawyer s call it, roacher in its grain, than the Spruce, occasioued partly bythe s 1perior luxe uriance of its growth, and therefo re should be used in large scantlings, where its strength and toughness render it a valuable wood, particularly for bea 8; only grea care must be taken that the ends are dry The Weymouth Toacher in the grain t in its own coun y (America) lighter and principal use for which laced in a strong iundred years, is for its toughness makes it proper. land well sh eltered, get to Worth eight or Larchis a delicate oured wood, not unlike the cedar used for black lead pencils, either in colour or smell. It has but little Sap, and is convertible to flooring board at an early age, but its knots are © 0y } rer unsight] ar Wehave few in this Kingdom of a large size, aud I have observed they decay and become Mossy about forty years old. They growbest in shel« tered situations, Howev , it is a valuable and pretty looking Wood, ej ther standing or converted. Itisa mistake to suppose that fir trees should be cnt in sumMer, because (as they say) the sap, which is the turpentine, is |