Note 48 — PART IV. NOTICES OF AUTHORS RELATIVE TO TIMBER.

In fairness, it may be proper to explain, that the greater part of the trees we have thus cultivated have been of Pyrus, although we commenced the practice with common forest trees—yet the pear and apple vary nothing from the oak and ash in the primary stage of life, in as far as respects the extension—we can also profit fully as much by raising apple timber of proper fast grown variety, as by any other timber; and have it in our power to sell this timber to machine-makers at double the price of oak of the same size.