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Title: Silva: or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions, as it was delivered in The Royal society, on the 15th of October 1662 ..
Year: 1801 (1800s)
Authors: Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. 1n Hunter, A. (Alexander), 1729-1809, ed. cn
Subjects: Forests and forestry Trees
Publisher: York, Wilson
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ow deformed and hollow, and of little worth but for thefire; whereas, were they oftener taken off when the lops were younger,though they did not furnish so great wood, yet the continuance andflourishing of the tree would more than recompense it. 3. They very frequently plant a clump of these trees before the entriesof the most of the great towns in Germany, to which they apply timber-frames for convenience of the people to sit and solace in. Scamozzi, thearchitect, says, That in his time he found one whose branches extendedseventy feet in breadth ; this was at Vuimfen, near the Necker, belong-ing to the Duke of Wirtemberg ; but that which I find planted before thegates of Strasburgh is a Platanus and a Lime-tree growing hard by oneanother, in which is erected a Pergula of fifty feet wide, and eight feetfrom the ground, having ten arches of twelve feet height, all fhadedwith their foliage; besides this, there is an over-grown Oak, which has anarbour in it of sixty feet diameter. /W I4J
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t ■///»• CO < fe It,//,,- .//.Vr„, OF FOREST-TREES. 1*5 CHAP. VII. T/ie ASH*, 1. X* RAXINUS, the ASH. This tree with us is reputed male and chap.vii.female, the one affecting the higher grounds, the other the plains, v*-~y~*~of a whiter wood, and rising many times to a prodigious stature soas in forty years from the key, an Ash hath been sold for thirty poundssterling. And I have been credibly informed, that one person hath xOf this genus there arc only three species. 1. FRAXINUS (excelsior) foliolis serratis, floribus apetalis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1509.—Ash-hce whose smaller laaves are serrated, and flowers having no petals. Fraxinus excelsior.C. B. P. 416. The common ash. This is the common Ash-tree which grows naturally in most parts of England, and is so wellknown as to need no description. The leaves of this sort have generally five pair of lobes,and are terminated by an odd one; they are of a very dark green, and their edges areslightly sawed. The flowers are produced in

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