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Show 800 SCOTCH SCOTCH FIR, FIR. afloat; they should always be cut when the sapis stagnant,viz. in winter. Fir cut in the summer will become full of mush: rooms in a twelvemonth afterwards. I have tried this fre. quently, and paid dearly for my experience. Places of Growth. 1. Scotchfir. cessary. Mountainous rockysituations, shelter not te. 801 exportation, the greater part ofthe timber is hewn in the inland country, aud floated down the rivers and cataract ina Cataracts, s V-MUiS nill are used for the purpose ofcutting the planks, but must be pri and can only cut a certain quantity. The proprie tors are bound to declare on oath that they have not exreeial that quantity ; and if they do, the privilegeis taken away, and the saw-mill destroyed. There are one hundred and thirty -SiX prisawemills at Christiana, of which one hundred belong to 2. Spruce. Gardens and lawns, where it can have room to spread its lower branches horizontally, and is not wanted to stand above forty years. 3. Silver fir. Strong lands, fit for oak ; rathersheltered ; but shelter not indispensable. 4, Larch. Sheltered situations on the sides of hills; land sandy, if possible, though poor. It does not like cold wet land. I omit the balm of Gilead fir, as we have had none grownto an age snflicient for determining its rise as timber. It seems to be verylike the silver fir in quality. I hope, sir, you will find something in these remarks worthy your notice, as they are the result of the experience of above thirty years, from the seed to the great tree. Lam, Sir, your very humble servant, Tuomas Davis. Extract from the Rev. William Coxe’s Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, on the Subject of Christiana Deal, The planks and deals are of superior estimation to those sent from America, Russia, and from the different parts of the Baltic, because the trees growon the rocks, and are therefore firmer, more compact, and less liable to rot than the others, whichchiefly shoot from a sandy or loamy soil. The planks are either red or white fir, or pine. The red woodis produced from the Scotch fir, and the white wood, which is in such highesti mation, from the spruce fir. ‘This wood is the most demanded, because no country produces it in such quantities as this part of Norway. Each tree yields three pieces of timber, eleven oF twelve feet in length, and is usually sawed into three planks ; : tree generally requires seventy or eighty years growth before it arrives at the greatest perfection. Theenvirons of Christiana not yielding sufficient planks for y of Anker. The quantity of planks permitted to be mounts to 20,000,000 standard deals, twelve fect long, and inch and a quarter thick.” aa In Scotland theydistinguish the woodcut in thenative forests from that obtained in plantations, bycalling the former Hig] ad fir, and the latter park fir. The Highland firis most esteemed, ou account ofits greater durability, being frequently found unfc lecayed in ancient a buildings, when the other sort is entirely vaste cestriking nuetet 7 asted. TE This : differen bey y ce ‘in the same species is probabl to be attri uted to the mountainous and rockysituations in hi ch the native timber is found, and where the trees being of slower rood is is consequently of a hardertex: :a r growth growth, the wood ture: the latter be readily atter may readily distingu may be distinon}ished from i that ofr the park fir‘ cr ha mb > s : ¥yits much deeper yellow colour.” 1 3 |