Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-09

Ch>stnut tree, the tree introduced
into the pictures of Salvador Rosa
The wood is used by coopers and fo1
water-pipes, because it neither
shrinks nor changes the color of ana
liquor it contains. 1t is, however, bad
for posts, and grass will not grow
beneath its shade.
Slaves that nor shrink nor swell,
The cooper's close-wrought cask d
chestnut owes. -Dodsley.
The roof of Westminster Abbey,
and that of the Parliament mouse, ~
Edinburg, are made of chestnut wood.
In Gotham Park, Kent, is q chest
nut tree 40 feet in girth IS feet from
the ground.)
At Tortworth, Gloucestershire, Is .
chestnut tree 50 feet i'm girth. Even
IN 1850 it was called the great chest
nut tree of Tortworth." .mr. Marsh
ham says it was $40 years old when
King John came to the throne, which
would carry us back to the heptarchy.
If 90, this tree has Tailed the whole
history Of England from the Roman
period to our own.
The horse chestnut bursts into Leaf
between March II and April l The
Spanish chestnut fully a month later.
Cypress hurts the least Of all trees
by its droppings.
Dog Rose. So called by the creeks
(kunordon), because the root was
deemed q cure for the bite of q mad
dog.
Elder Tree, used for skewers, tops
OF angling rods, needles for netting,
turnery. The pfth is used for electro
meters and in electrical experiments.
An infusion of elder leaves will de-
Stroy insects On delicate plants better
than tobacco juice; and if turnips,
! cabbages, fruit trees, ETC., are brush
ed with a branch of elder leaves no
insect will infest the plants.
Elm is used for axle-trees, mill
wheels, keels of boats, gunwales
chairs, collins, rails, gates, under
ground pipes, pumps, millwork, pat
terms.
Grass will grow beneath its shade.
The elm is pre-eminent for the
tenacity of its wood, which never
splinters. 1t is the first of forest
trees to burst into leaf.
Toads and frogs are often imbed-
some hollow place or crack, and be-
come imprisoned by the glutinous
fluid of the new inner bark Ciber and
alburnum.) Some have oeen found
alive when the tree is cut down, but
they need not have been embedded
long.
AT Hampstead there was once q
famous hollow elm, which had a
staircase within md seats at the top
At Blythfield. in Staffordshire, was
an elm which, Ray tells us, furnished
$3.50 feet of planks, weighing 81 tons.
The elm at Chequers, Buckingham
shire, was planted in the reign of
Stephen; the shell is now 81 feet in
girth. The Chepstead Elm, Kent, con-
tains 268 feet of timber, and is IS
feet in girth; it is said to have had
an annual fair beneath it's shade in
the reign of henry V. The elm at
Crawley, in Sussex, is 20 feet high
and 80 feet in girth.
Fig Tree. The leaves of this tree
have the property of maturing game
and meat hung amongst them.
Fir Tree. In Ireland the bog frs,
beaten into string, are n anufa ctured
into rope, capable of resisting the
weather much longer than hempen
ropes. The bark can be used for tan.
Tar and pitch are obtained from the
trunk and branches. lne trimmings
OF fir forests will do for hop-poles.
ecantlings and rafters, and it's tim
Der is used by. builders.
Grass will not grow beneath dr
trees.