. A manual of the timbers of the world : their characteristics and uses : to which is appended an account by S. Fitzgerald of the artificial seasoning of timber. Timber. ,172 THE TIMBERS OF THE WORLD. I'holofiiafih by kind pjrmiMon o] H. J. Klwes Esg. Oak in Kvke Tark Worcestershire. forests. Yet with that curious attitude in which the average Enghshman ignores the value of the pro- ducts of his own country and utihses instead those of foreign lands, such trees as these become well known, whUst others in England, of equal quality and as large dimensions, remain unnoticed. For instance, in Kyre
. A manual of the timbers of the world : their characteristics and uses : to which is appended an account by S. Fitzgerald of the artificial seasoning of timber. Timber. ,172 THE TIMBERS OF THE WORLD. I'holofiiafih by kind pjrmiMon o] H. J. Klwes Esg. Oak in Kvke Tark Worcestershire. forests. Yet with that curious attitude in which the average Enghshman ignores the value of the pro- ducts of his own country and utihses instead those of foreign lands, such trees as these become well known, whUst others in England, of equal quality and as large dimensions, remain unnoticed. For instance, in Kyre Park, Worcester- shire, the property of Mrs. Baldwin Childe, is an oak grove con- taining over one hun- dred trees, whose clean, straight stems are of a wonderful height. H. J. Elwes. writing of them, says "... thej' are not so remarkable for their girtli as for the waj^ in which tlie\- run up with clear stems to a great height. The two tallest are cer- tainly o\'er 130 feet by my own measure- ments in 1907. . The largest . . has a stem 83 feet long by 17 feet S inches in girth at 5 feet, and contains 1031 cubic feet of timber. Four- teen of tliem contain. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Howard, Alexander Liddon, 1863-1946; Fitzgerald, S. London : Macmillan
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