Tree of the month

[sean]

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/12687-birch-cord-wood-price.html

[sean]

Place names:

 

Birkenhead (Wirral) ‘ headland where birch grows’, Birchwood (Cheshire) Berkesdon (Hertfordshire) ‘birch valley’ Birkdale (Lancashire) ‘birch valley’, Birchington (Kent) Much & Little Birch (Herefordshire), Birchanger (Essex) ‘birch wood on a slope’

[David oakman]

Sean i can't work the chat room so how would i know what cut and paste is:lol:

If you go to Staverton there are silver birch growing in Oak pollards and also some nice walking birch:thumbup1:

[sean]

John Evelyn's 1664 Sylva or a Discourse on Forest Trees and the Propogation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions (a good read if you are interested in 17th-century fencing techniques) for the beer, which, if you can get your hands on a gallon of birch sap, will be just as good today as it was 350 years ago.

 

To every Gallon of Birch-water put a quart of Honey, well stirr'd together; then boil it almost an hour with a few Cloves, and a little Limon-peel, keeping it well scumm'd. When it is sufficiently boil'd, and become cold, add to it three or four Spoonfuls of good Ale to make it work . . . and when the Test begins to settle, bottle it up . . . it is gentle, and very harmless in operation within the body, and exceedingly sharpens the Appetite, being drunk ante pastum.

 

 

 

Anybody made anything like it?

[Mark J]

I've heard a little yeast can help.

[arbwork]

swedish cut leaf birch in back garden winter sun,

[Kat1e]

What an interesting post.

 

Could somebody explain the process of tapping a tree for sap? I've never seen it done.

[armchairarborist]

just crown lift a birch (or sycamore) end of jan.. and put a bucket under the cut.. mmm sycamore wine

[Kat1e]

Sounds like a plan!

[Gerbutt]

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Birch that looks like a naked lady.