Your favourite tree

[Casey Jones]

Paper birch.

When I was a kidlet, we'd spend three weeks in June in the Adirondack Preserve. The shedding sheet-bark of the paper birch has to be seen to be understood. The Boy Scouts understood how important was the curled sheets of thin bark..that one early figure made it into a poem:

First a curl of birch bark As dry as it can be then some twigs of soft wood Dead from off a tree Last of all some Pine knots to make a kettle foam And there's a fine to make you think you're sitting right at home.

The rest of my post was lost in a web hiccup.

[Private Pickle]

Its pungent, very stinky but otherwise hard to describe but it travels far. People use the chips to line the local roads.

Took me a while to figure out what was causing the smell.

I can imagine. It takes about 70 years for them to become mature which is why they never took as a building wood despite early attempts. To cut them up green was a major problem. Cool to hear one of the reasons why.

[montana]

Cherry

[John Galt]

Next we have number 12-The Larch


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The Larch

Those are interesting. Local tree guys call them Larch, but I believe they're also tamaracks. They shed their leaves in the winter, which is odd for a conifer.

[John Galt]

Paper birch.

When I was a kidlet, we'd spend three weeks in June in the Adirondack Preserve. The shedding sheet-bark of the paper birch has to be seen to be understood. The Boy Scouts understood how important was the curled sheets of thin bark..that one early figure made it into a poem:

First a curl of birch bark As dry as it can be then some twigs of soft wood Dead from off a tree Last of all some Pine knots to make a kettle foam And there's a fine to make you think you're sitting right at home.

The rest of my post was lost in a web hiccup.

I went through a 'phase' when I lived in Vermont in my younger days. I'd carefully slice a few layers (there are quite a few) of white birch bark from a tree, and use it for stationery.

[John Galt]

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At one time, my beloved city was home to thousands, and I mean literally thousands of American Elm trees. Alot of the streets were covered in them like old Humboldt Pkwy. pictured. Unfortunately, because of the prevalence of the Dutch Elm disease, the city's Elm population was all but decimated by the latter half of the 1970s Some street had maple and other species planted about that time and are just now beginning to see a resurgence of tree canopies over the streets.

I caught the last gasps of the elm in the late 70s in Vt. They're very graceful trees. Impossible to split for firewood, though.

[donttread]

Next we have number 12-The Larch


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The Larch

Nature's pre-treated lumber.

[donttread]

I'd have to say the Maple, pretty much all of them. Sugar maples for Syrup, red maples and the other's for fall color. Excellent finish material and burnable as well. I have an odd maple in my yard that is not a sugar maple but once in a while in the spring I cut off asmall branch and drink some sap out of the tree. I think it's aform of silver maple , the only down side is that it produces more leaves than any tree I have ever seen.

[US Conservative]

American Chestnut.

[Boris The Animal]

Next we have Number 12. The Larch, The...Larch.


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