Volume 1

Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions ... Together with an historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves / By John Evelyn ... with notes by A. Hunter... To which is added the Terra. A philosophical discourse of earth. With the editor's last corrections and a short memoir of him.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Date:
1812
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sylva, or a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions ... Together with an historical account of the sacredness and use of standing groves / By John Evelyn ... with notes by A. Hunter... To which is added the Terra. A philosophical discourse of earth. With the editor's last corrections and a short memoir of him. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in taking hold, growing only black without; and the timber of it is so exceedingly transparent, that in the dark night when cabins, made of the thin boards, have lighted candles in them, people who are at a distance without doors, would imagine the whole room to be on fire. The Larix bears polishing excellently well, and the turners abroad much desire it. Vitruvius says, it is so ponderous that it will sink in water. It makes everlasting spouts, pent-houses, and featheridge, which need neither pitch nor painting to preserve them ; also excellent pales, posts, railsy, pediments, and props for vines. To these add the palettes on which our painters blend their colours. Before the use of canvas and bed-tick, it formed the tables on which the great Raphael, and the famous artists of the last age, eternized their skill. r I am in possession of the rail of a gate made of Larch, which withstood the weather, without the least decay, for upwards of twenty years, during which period the Oak posts were twice renew ed. 3 B Volume r.