is stairs, or for other work in his house, when there were large butternut trees on his own land which would have furnished ten times more lumber than he required, and that, too, of a superior beauty. A common error is frequently committed in selecting dur- able building timber for dwelling houses… … as soon a8 basswood or buttonwood. When the ends of sleep not be obtained, some other kind of timber may be had which ers are reccived in gainscut in the sills, the very ends are will be found quite as durable as oak. Red elm, if seasoned before the timber is employed for fence posts,will last…
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