How To Use Birch In A Sentence

The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
A section of a branch of birch or willow from the north only a couple of inches in diameter will show one or two hundred annual rings. Factors Affecting Development of Canada's North
It continues as an usual inland resort set in woodland of silver birches, rhododendrons and conifers.
The tranquility of Birch's daytime views hardly characterized the disputative climate surrounding the building, then and later.
Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching. It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen

And then you've got the work in the luxury saloon sector, where people are phoning out for still bigger pieces of aluminium and ordering up even larger chunks of birchwood, in accordance with a mission to go faster, fatter.
A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still. Anne of Green Gables
The next crossing was the Birch Creek Valley, and it was sleeting.
I take in the dock-green porch swing , the birch-leg table , the twin BED where my sister sleeps , the smoky glass of the kerosene lantern.
In cold climates, you could substitute a trio of birches for the tree aloes and underplant them with blue fescue.
Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
The area encompasses zones of subarctic mountain birch forest in the lowlands, heather and grassland higher up, and mountainous alpine terrain at the highest altitudes.
He followed this by sitting down and making a besom - a brush made from birch twigs.
The darling yellow trumpets are thrusting up in fir and birch woods across Scotland for our delight. Times, Sunday Times
The man was whittling a stave of birchwood into a rude axe-handle, and asked the question without raising his head. THE GREAT INTERROGATION
Window mullions were rebuilt, and birch plywood casework that handsomely echoes the 1950s was installed.
Glass mosaic tile is used for the backsplash, the countertop is cold-rolled steel, and a storage cabinet of birch includes a built-in hamper to keep dirty clothes from landing on the floor.
With its full stealth, supersonic cruise capability, and electronics that make the Starship Enterprise look like a birchbark canoe, it is utterly unmatched as a fighter aircraft. Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
The degrees which Oxford and Cambridge conferred in Grammar did not involve residence or entitle the recipients to a vote in Convocation; but the conferment was accompanied by ceremonies which were almost parodies of the solemn proceedings of graduation or inception in a recognised Faculty, a birch taking the place of a book as a symbol of the power and authority entrusted to the graduand. Life in the Medieval University
But in a court case the boy was birched by a policeman who he had never seen before.
The first nest containing a brood of tiny young was found in a slight depression in the ground beneath birches.
This thesis analysis totally on the structure and features of the birch bark's culture which owned by the special group who are living in the great and small Xingan mountains.
We need harsh punishments for children who attack people for just being told off even if it means bringing the birch back.
Keep the lone silver birch to your right and make sure you don't end up in one of the many little pools. Times, Sunday Times
Establishment of long-term grass swards has had some success, and planting birch (Betula pubescens) and native willows (Salix lanata and S. phylicifolia) is proving a successful conservation measure, using mycorrhizal inocula, for re-establishing species and habitat diversity of grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands that were lost through overgrazing [22] [23] although non-native species can cause problems. Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic
The newly planted trees include oak, ash, Scots pine, yew, birch and alder.
Though the libretto is not very carefully written, it is better than the average performances of this {177} kind, and with poetical intuition Schefsky has refrained from the temptation, to make it turn out well, as Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer has done in her play of L'orle, which is a weak counterpart of Auerbach's village-tragedy. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
They spend a night in the Birchall mansion where Pythias and Damon play chess. The woe of an aspiring genius.
Along the old lanes there is still the feeling of Nouvelle France, of fur-trappers and voyageurs, of hearty chaps in beaver hats and birch-bark canoes who disappeared into the interior to hunt, to fish and to marry Iroquois brides.
The pleasure of being able to walk home each day through oak and birch woods, with the trees changing colours in the autumn. Times, Sunday Times
They are grown from really strange, segmented rhizomes that look like succulent birch cones. The Sun
In Kentucky, the plant is often associated with azaleas, mountain laurels and bellworts under the dappled shade of birch trees.
Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
The trees were mostly birches, with here and there a twisted trunk of alder, overgrown with bramble and honeysuckle.
Steven Birch and a small team of archaeologists are excavating a remarkable cave on the Isle of Skye.
The road becomes a gravel track and begins to ascend through silver birch as the hills start closing in.
And there is nothing wrong with being an old, birching, national service advocatin' eurosceptic, dominatrix visitin' Tory either. Battleship Dunwoody to Relaunch
Interior surfaces are of pine and birch plywood boarding and acoustic wood louvres.
Interactive effect of springtime frost and elevated ozone on early growth, foliar injuries and leaf structure of birch (Betula pendula). Use and evaluation of the ACIA forest and agriculture scenarios
Birch twigs are thin and flexible, and have small buds. Times, Sunday Times
What is called the birch or “birk in Yule even’” was probably the _Yule clog_. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
To thee, at thy birchen altar, with true Spartan devotion, I have sacrificed my blood. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Birch or beech wood is used for handles and the wooden grips, and horsehair, white fibre or piassava is used for bristles, depending on what the brush is to be used for.
The non-intensive moor was lovely with some hazy silver birch, vivid green mosses, rushes, bilberries, bleached and tufted grasses and a touch of gorse.
The steeper slopes and cliffs of Augill support a mixed woodland of ash, birch and rowan with an interesting ground flora including species such as bluebell, sanicle and wood avens.
Nestled amid those trails and orange red maples, oaks, beeches and birches was the Lost River.
I look for the sky but it is hidden from the eye by the Spanish oaks, genipas, and the giant mountain immortelles arching over the bayrum and coral trees and the pink cedars, that in turn hang over the wild birchberry and guava trees.
He was not amused, especially when he heard that that same bunch had voted to bring back the birch only two weeks earlier.
The coppice of trees seemed to get thicker as tall birches lined the road, replacing the old-fashioned houses.
How to make the wreath I like to make my base from hazel or birch cuttings. Times, Sunday Times
The trunk of the silver birch has always been too bent and gnarled for commercial use.
‘Bring back the birch,’ slurred Mrs Mungo into her umpteenth pre-prandial sherry.
Birch fails to convince me that a more traditional theology could not do the job.
In the second half, Paul Merson twice miscued shots and Gary Birch headed wide for Walsall, before, with five minutes left, Wallsall right-back Chris Baird was sent off for a second bookable offence.
There was a peewit somewhere over to the south-east, and the birch leaves made a soft sussurration behind him. A DEATH IN TIME
They are most likely to be seen in small flocks in birch trees. Times, Sunday Times
We were stopped in our tracks as wave after wave of fieldfares with a soft chirping twittering glided out of tall silver birch trees and on to patches of pasture.
The fly agaric or fairy toadstool grows here too, especially under birch along with other woodland fungi.
The track climbs through birch trees and crosses a small gorge before dropping down to the shoreline again.
They are found across much of Asia in summer, and make domed nests in the birch forests. Times, Sunday Times
The newly planted trees include oak, ash, Scots pine, yew, birch and alder.
Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching. It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
He planned to have an avenue of oaks on the west, of birches on the east, and of sycamores and poplars on the other boundaries of the village.
The spa offers a traditional Russian banya experience, involving a ritual of hot saunas, cold baths and an invigorating banya besom treatment—a stimulating massage using birch or oak twigs. Latvia's Burgeoning Spa Scene
I left my benediction on this pretty little natural caravansera, and a brief record on one of its white birches, hoping to visit it again on some sweet summer or autumn day. Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881
I finished down an arched spine of a ridge, village in view, and sloe tree scrub and birch, menacing fly agaric funghi, and a flashing flock of goldcrests.
There was a little birch tree halfway up the hill which rises steeply to the southwest. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Out have gone the unforgiving birch fences with the giant drops. The Sun
The Samoyed tent is commonly covered with reindeer skins, the Ostyak tent with birch bark. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
The yellowy bark of birches glows in the moonlight. Times, Sunday Times
The troughs in the cement become shallow graves; the birchbark on her wrists in one of the Daphne images is a bracelet and also a bandage. When One Act Colors a Lifetime of Work
Currently we're using hazel and silver birch. Times, Sunday Times
The crossing cuts though a tranquil landscape of birch forests and pristine lakes. Times, Sunday Times
There was a little birch tree halfway up the hill which rises steeply to the southwest. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
Understory growth is not luxuriant, consisting mostly of grouse whortleberry, Oregon grape, and birchleaf spirea. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
In winter, they are most readily observed feeding in trees with catkins, such as birch and alder.
We pass through pretty forests of birch and pine trees, moss covered rocks and a haze of blue and purple flowers.
We are literally still in the birchbark canoe stage of space exploration, testing the waters. Why Some Say the Moon? - NASA Watch
A small grove of silver birch trees will sit amid a dense drift of yellow autumn leaves. Times, Sunday Times
Birch, alder, ash and hazel line the path, and the Grotaig Burn forms a steep-sided gorge for part of the way, the sides of which are covered with ferns and woodrush.
Ms. BIRCH: I was playing piano at the Beverly Hills Hotel in L.A. and he came in this one day and I was playing and so I made sure to play my grooviest little piece on the piano. Diane Birch: The 'Bible Belt,' In Eclectic Song
On many silver birch trees, especially young ones, there are still pale yellow leaves fluttering in the wind on the lower branches. Times, Sunday Times
A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
With efficient rasplike grinders, they consumed a winter diet of coarse dry grass, plus twigs and bark of birches, willows, and larches with as much ease as they did their summer diet of green grasses, sedges, and herbs. The Mammoth Hunters
His railway, finished in 1837, was an immediate success, even though the native birchwood used as fuel produced showers of sparks and complaints by smouldering passengers.
Through the thin trunks of birch and larger oaks, she could hear the flat chimes of running water, and knew she was close.
The Sheraton card table between the windows is inlaid with rectangular birch panels and was made in Boston about 1805.
I'd strongly advocate bringing back the birch and use it to punish vandals.
The birch bark, like the dryest of paper, burst into bright flame. First Version of To Build A Fire
Astelia nervosa, with its swordshaped, woolly topped leaves, thrives under a silver birch. Times, Sunday Times
I plant these in a semicircular drift around the birch and dogwoods, and bring them as close to the bench as possible because their downward facing flowers invite close inspection.
_ We, in our time, have heard of Sheffield ladies having three children at birth; but we know no other case, but that of the aforesaid Mrs. Birch, which countenances the fructiferous fame which they have obtained in some circles. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851
At Sabi, for example, 25 kilometers southeast of Moscow, fishermen cast lines from docks along the wooded shore, which are dotted with whimsical sculptures made of birchwood. Escape From Moscow:
They made shoes from birch bark and clothes from hemp cloth. Times, Sunday Times
But already it is covered again with purple swaths of bell heather and little bright green birch trees two feet tall. Times, Sunday Times
An urgent call has gone out for volunteers to carry out an operation to remove willow and birch scrub fringing the moss's shallow pools.
Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead, as the shoreline curved to meet me.
The cable car sails over silver birch and pines and patches of snow. Times, Sunday Times
The ground floor is primarily transparent, providing a sense of the park extending through the building and into the courtyard, where a grove of Yellow birch provides shade and protection.
Available in birch, oak or walnut. Times, Sunday Times
The frames were usually of pine or veneered with mahogany, birch, or elm.
The trees include willow, cherry, poplar, acers, larch, ash, birch, sycamore, elder and sitka spruce.
Although these canoes are covered with birchbark, this skin, like that of a kayak, is stretched over a framework of ribs and spars.
Available species include bald cypress, various dogwood, maple and oak varieties, arrowwood and nannyberry viburnum, black chokeberry, river birch, buttonbush, redbud, Norway spruce, eastern white pine and fragrant sumac. IndyStar.com Top Stories
The river birch trees spread their silvery shade over the slate walkways.
I love plants in season - old roses are a summer favourite - and I've got delphiniums, pelargoniums, agapanthus, tulips, silver birch, to name a few.
Ash is the most common tree, although oak and birch grow there too. Times, Sunday Times
Ten to one on Harrington!" bawled the Birch Creek King, flourishing his sack in the lieutenant's face. A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA
But soon comes the spectacular fall colors of the birch tree, signaling the fast approach of winter and the long dark days that took a heavy toll on Mr. Littlejohn after his arrival in 1987.
How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. Michelle Paver - An interview with author
With the birch catkins all gone by February, they come down and feed on the early dandelion clocks. Times, Sunday Times
The course is aimed at beginners, and will help them spot the difference between the hazel and the hawthorn, and the beech from a birch.
The road meandered down to the pond, lined by birches on either side, to the manor house, which stood to the left of and slightly behind the house as one approached it.
The reserve at Balnaguard Glen was created in 1976 and is a highly dissected gorge dominated by birch and juniper woodland and marked by spectacular landslips on its northern side.
In the boreal region, the most common trees are Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), Norway spruce (Picea abies), silver birch (Betula pendula), and downy birch (B. pubescens). Land tenure and management in the boreal region
Last week, the tree swallow pair abandoned its nest box in the old birch tree in front of my window.
They grow among grass and moss in mixed woodlands, but they seem to have a special affinity with silver birch.
Just 14 acres of broadleaf woodland remain, including oak, ash, alder and birch and several large yew trees.
She came out of the wood of glistening birch, and with the first fires of the sun blazoning her unbound hair raced lightly across the dew-dripping meadow. CHAPTER 2
Back at the bog's edge, pushing aside blackberry brambles and birch branches, Taylor stops frequently to explain the side of the bog few have seen.
The cable car sails over silver birch and pines and patches of snow. Times, Sunday Times
They made shoes from birch bark and clothes from hemp cloth. Times, Sunday Times
Ash is the most common tree, although oak and birch grow there too. Times, Sunday Times
I come back with an armful of dead birch to find Tony digging films out of a snowdrift near the tent.
Luminosity is enhanced by planes of the pale brick, and by using birch veneered panels on the inner walls of the galleries.
Hey twin birch is that a yellow lab I see in your pic? Calling all Portland Soapers
An imperceptible breeze forced the leaves of a regiment of birch trees into anxious quaking.
Eventually we came to a stand of birch trees growing in a circle.
So we slipped straight into a larch wood and then soon found a nice sunken track through Silpho Moor with beech and birch, heather and bilberry, and, having dropped out of the clouds, sweet views of Whisper Dales.
Here are floors of heat-treated birch (a process which hardens and darkens the wood).
In Samhain, banks of grass-covered earth in the shape of a sleeping woman wrap around a pool encircled in a ring of birch trees.
After the meeting, Mr Jones said that in some cases people wanted to see a return to capital punishments like the birch and cane.
In autumn this is one of Britain's finest sights: birch and aspen in golden clouds around the evergreen pines, while on the forest floor heathers still flower among the blaeberries and cowberries. Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
The old grass and the sprouting needles of new grass greened, the buds on the guelder-rose, the buds and the sticky, spirituous birches swelled, and on the willow, all sprinkled with golden catkins, the flitting, newly-hatched bee buzzed. Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
Probably the pitch-pine of the Northern States, in conjunction with some of the American oaks, birches, and poplars, and especially the robinia or locust, would prove very suitable to be employed on the sand-hills of Cape Cod and Long Island. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical)
There is something a little sinister about it, amid that green and fecund landscape, with its skirting of pine and silver birch and the furze and bracken above.
We spun, whizzed, dashed, leaped, "cavorted;" we did whatever a birch running the gantlet of whirlpools and breakers may do, except the fatal finality of a somerset. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
About a third of the total area will be set aside for natural regeneration of broadleaf trees such as oak, rowan and birch.
After a minute of searching, he found what he was looking for: A tell-tale wire winding up a large birch tree.
There are considerable areas of birch scrub in Iceland and at exposed coastal sites in north Norway.
To the east of the track the land rises immediately and forested to the moors; the land to the west pans out as pasture after sheep pasture, interspersed with a few areas of springs and copses of alder or birch.
Edwards hares down the right and nearly latches onto a through ball from Birchall.
Dark oak finishes are out of fashion at the moment, with blond woods such as maple and birch taking over. Times, Sunday Times
The course is aimed at beginners, and will help them spot the difference between the hazel and the hawthorn, and the beech from a birch.
Thora Birch and Vincent Kartheiser brave the wilderness after the plane of their bush pilot goes down.
He followed this by sitting down and making a besom - a brush made from birch twigs.
Ash is the third (after oak and birch) most common tree in these islands. Times, Sunday Times
Nita joins a group of around six other women who all meet at Mudge Seager's house in Birch Street to knit.
You can almost smell the birch bark. Times, Sunday Times
Double doors lead through to the kitchen, which has a large range of birch Shaker-style wall and floor units and an integrated fridge-freezer and dishwasher.
There remain the demand for an unbaptized child to kiss, the torture to which the heroes of the two Bohemian sagas submit, the requirement in the Pomeranian tale to place seven brothers on the stone haunted by the seven mice, and lastly the personal violence to the damsel involved in striking her with a birch-rod or a bunch of juniper and in beheadal. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
But the meanest thing that I ever heard of his doing, was this: In these same woods -- the woods where the huckleberries and hazel nuts grew -- there were great multitudes of birch trees, of different species and among the rest, some of that species which goes by the name, among children, of _black birch_. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities.
The building a composition of Finnish pine, spruce and birch, and a testimonial to their special.
The third gaming table, of mahogany and birch, was made in either Boston or Salem, about 1805 to 1815.
The incident started when the lorry shed its load on M62 eastbound near Birch.
We passed on staying in one of the hotel's 12 scrummy rooms and opted for one of the log cabins nestling among a Blair Witch-type forest of birch and ash just behind the Four Seasons.
To its credit, the Great Falls Leader devoted a front-page sidebar to the collapse of the dam on Birch Creek, offering chilling eyewitness descriptions of the wall of water that swept down the valley.
Among the thousands of species he planted on LaGuardia Place are red and white oak, cedar, elm, birch, sassafras, dogwood, sumac, Virginia creeper and goldenrod.
Both of the island chains were once covered in dense woodlands of birch, alder, willow, hazel, rowan and aspen.
Willow warblers are singing in birch woods where the trees are not too tall. Times, Sunday Times
But slim as the groves of birch trees were, they were not silver. Times, Sunday Times
You would think when a bowl hits a tree the sound would be fierce, a loud clatter as stoneware explodes on birch bark dispersing shards in daffodils and grape muscari, but the noise is gentle, a thudding clink like empty bourbon bottles rattling hollow in Monday morning trash; yet this contusion of wood upon ceramic, When a Bowl Hits a Tree
You can almost smell the birch bark. Times, Sunday Times
This week though, it is considered punishment enough just to be birched. The 'N' Word Won't Go Away
Native fruitwoods and birch were more likely to be found in bourgeois houses.
For this reason it is called the black, or cherry, birch, and also because the tree is very much like the black cherry. Among the Trees at Elmridge
There was a little birch tree halfway up the hill which rises steeply to the southwest. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Follow the well-marked, modest portages from Birch Lake to Carp Lake, and into Emerald.
'Come, get a fire started,' he commanded, drawing out the precious matchbox with its attendant strips of dry birchbark. The Wisdom of the Trail
You can almost smell the birch bark. Times, Sunday Times
The old grass looked greener, and the young grass thrust up its tiny blades; the buds of the guelder-rose and of the currant and the sticky birch-buds were swollen with sap, and an exploring bee was humming about the golden blossoms that studded the willow. Anna Karenina
Once the diving is over, the charming town of Inverary beckons, offering friendly pubs with aromatic birch logs in the hearth and stone-flagged floors, not to mention good beer and a wee dram if you fancy.
The colouring is so exquisite, the sky and clouds are so beautiful, the pine woods look at times the richest purple in the distance; and the foliage of the white birches, and brushwood, and grass near the shore, was of most vivid pale greens when we came up. Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home"
The frames were usually of pine or veneered with mahogany, birch, or elm.
A white strip of birch bark blowing up from the hollow over the brown floor of the grove made her heart stand still. Anne of Green Gables
Since myxomatosis birch and oak have repopulated the area. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
Peaks in recruitment are roughly synchronous with similar peaks in aspen and white birch, suggesting that they may be associated with similar causes.
For the first time in 2,000 years, Scots pine, alder, birch, hazel, holly, and mountain ash are set to reclaim a large swath of the Scottish Highlands.
Trees like aspen, poplar and birch actually have a very low flammability rate, according to the Fire Smart Web site.
We met with so many surprises - ice mountains, mountain lakes, swampland, original forests with different layers of red pines, silver birches and trees I didn't recognize.
I take in the dock-green porch swing, the birch-leg table, the twin bed where my sister sleeps, the smoky gloss of the kerosene lantern.
Significantly, this line marks the southern limit of the birch tree, a plant whose pollen is one of the causes of hay fever in northern Europe.
Indigenous oak, elm, birch and ash forests are no longer under threat from development but from the intrusion of species such as sycamore and beech, which migrated to the country in the middle ages.
I hadn't noticed it before, but a light fog misted over the far off maples and oaks and straggly birches and weeping willows in dusk, dreary cheer.
In the boreal region, the most common trees are Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), Norway spruce (Picea abies), silver birch (Betula pendula), and downy birch (B. pubescens). Land tenure and management in the boreal region
my father never spared the birch
The spin and "whizz" of his reel, the rush of a brown mountain stream with its fringe of silver birch and stunted alder, the white side of a leaping salmon, and the gasp of that noble fish towed deftly into the shallows at last, afforded him a natural and unmixed pleasure. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
What may follow in the path of the dead forest will likely be a mix of grasses and more hardwood trees like birch, aspen and alder.
Birch branches leaning against a wall in the living room become sculpture, for example.
In the article on Collins in Birch's Dictionary, Birch notes that his “large and curious [library] was open to all men of letters, to whom he readily communicated all the lights and assistance in his power, and even furnished his antagonists with books to confute himself, and directed them how to give their arguments all the force of which they were capable” (Birch, quoted in Berman, 1975). Anthony Collins
This restored forest would be dominated by long-lived, shade tolerant species like sugar maple, yellow birch, hemlock, white pine and red spruce.
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Although birch germination was unaffected by patch type, birch survivorship also was lower in bluestem and aspen than in horsetail.
They were obliged to carry their light, birchen canoes from home, and these were packed with the necessary tackle, skins for beds, &c. The strong men of the party carried the canoes on their shoulders, and the women the smaller articles of furniture. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
Accordingly, the weeping-willow, the weeping-birch, and other trees of early and pendulous shoots, flourish in these favoured recesses in a degree unknown in our eastern districts; and the air is also said to possess that mildness which is favourable to consumptive cases. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
It was employed to create splints for making baskets, skin an animal, fashion snowshoes, harpoons, spears, bowls, and ladles, and make a birchbark canoe.
Looking out across the pond one sees a cherry tree in palest pink, and, farther away, the glistening white trunks of an old birch tree.
Around the lodge were open fields, a stream fringed with reeds, and groves of silver birch. Times, Sunday Times

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