Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-09
FOREST TREES.
Interesting Facts Concerning Their
Virtues and Uses.

pres, cdpbtdl LOT the foundations OF
buildings situated upon boys; it be-
comes black as jet and almost im-
perishable when used for piles in
swamps or under water. The Rialto
OF Venice is founded on alder. 1t is
excellent for clogs, shoe-heels, wood
EN- shoes, cogs for mill-wheels, turn
cry, chairs, poles, and garden props
1t is said that fieas dislike it.
Alder nourishes whatever plant
grows in its shadow.
Ash, the Venus of the forest.
Used for all tools employed in nus
bandry, carts, wagons. wheels, pull
ieys, and oars. 1t bursts into leaf
between May 13 and June IA.
Grass will grow beneath it.
AT Donirey, near Care, is the hol-
low trunk of an ash tree AZ feet in
circumference, in which little school,
used to be kept.
In Woburn Park is an ash tree 80
feet high, Is feet in girth 6 feet from
the ground), and containing a grand
total of 872 cubic feet of timber.
The ash tree at Carnock, planted
In 1896, supposed to be the largest IN
Scotland, is 80 feet high and 10 feet
-
DR.. Walker says he measured an
ash tree in Dochaber churchyard,
land, SO feet in girth Is feet from the
the ground.)
Aspen tree. No grass will grow in
Its vicinity. The legend is that the
Cross of Jesus was made of this wood.
and hence its leaves were doomed to
tremble till the day of doom.
Ah! tremble, tremble, aspen tree!
We need not ask thee why thou
shakest;
For If, as holy legend saith,
On thee the Savior bled to death,
No wonder, aspen, that thou quak-
est!
And till in judgment all assemble,
Thy leaves accused shall wall and
tremble. E.CB.
Beech tree, employed for clogs, tool
handles, plants, mallets, turnery,
large wooden screws. sounding boards
OF musical instruments, scabbards,
band-boxes, book-covers, collins,
chairs, and bedsteads; but for chairs
and bedsteads it is not fit, as it is a
favorite resort of the ptinus pectini-
cornis. whose eggs are deposited on
the surface of the wood, and the
young worms eat their way in. Floats
for nets are made of the bark. 1t is
excellent for wood fires, and is called
In France bois d Andelle. The beech
bursts into leaf between April 10 and
May z.
THE Twelve Apostles" On an ISL
and of the lake Wetter, were twelve
majestice beech trees, now reduced
to eleven, for jealous peasant cut
down one of them, declaring "that
the traitor Judas should have no
part nor lot with the faithful" On
these beeches are cut the names of
Charles XII, Charles Ill, Queen
Eleonora, and other distinguished
visitors. Other famous becomes are
the Frankley Beeches, in Worcester
shire.
Virgil's bowl, divini opus Aicime-
domtis, was made of beech wood. and
Pliny tells us that vessels used in the
temples were made sometimes of the
same wood.
The beech, like the FIR and chest
nut, Is very destructive of vegetation
beneath.
Birch, used by the ancients for pap
yrus. The wood is used for the heels
OF shoes, cradles, packing-boxes,
Dabots, drinking cups, brooms or be-
SONS, rods. torches and charcoal
1T supplies the northern peasant
with his house, his bread, his wine.
and the vessels to put it in, part of
his clothing, and the furniture of his
bed"
Birch loves the coolest places.
Rla Clrfh0ru ;< f0rp,al ;u,ho +oot1, -
rakes and into walking sticks. Letters
written on linen or wooden with sloe-
Juice will not wash out.
1t Is said that Joseph of Arimath
planted his staff on the south ridge
of Weary-all Hill (now WerraO,
where 1t grew and put forth blossoms
every Christmas day afterwards. The
original tree was destroyed in the
reign of Charles I, by puritan SOL
der, who lost his life by splinter,
which wounded him while so employ
ed. The variety, which blossoms
twice a year, is now pretty common.
The Holy Thorn has been intro
duced into many parts, and is now
grown in several gardens about Glas-
tonbury and its vicinity. Pilgrimages
continue to be made to this tree even
In Mr.. Eyston's time. who died 1921"
Werner, Evening Post, January,
1853.
Box, used for turnery, combs.
mathematical Instruments. knife
handles, tops, screws. button-moulds.
wood eDgravings. Box wood will sink
IN water.
A decoction of box wood promotes
khe growth of hair, and an oil dis
titled from its shavings is a cure for
homorrhoids, tooth-ache. epilepsy
and stomach-worms; so we are told.
Cedar, used for cigar boxes. It ID
Ae4eful to moths and heas. and hence
e y used for lining wardrobes and
drawers.
Cherry tree, used by the turner
tofmed into chairs and hoops. It i.
stained to imitafe mahogany, "a
which wood, both IN grain and color
q approaches negrer than any other
81 this country. It Is stained black
Tor picture frames. The cherry tres
was first introduced from Flander.
into Kent, in the reign Of Henry VIII
More than hundred men, during
9 eeige, were kept alive for nearly
two nonths, without any other susie.
1nMce shan a little of this gum talker
1oko the mouth and suffered grad.
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