It s for shoe-lasts, tool-handles, planes, and mallets ; and sometimes chairs, bedsteads, and other articles of furniture are made of it.

" Sheep and goats eat the leaves of the beech.

When gathered in autumn, before they are much injured by frost, the leaves, on account of their elastic quality, make better paillasse than either straw or chaff, and they last seven or eight years The nuts of the red beech are produced every second year.

They are of a triangular form, with a smooth tough skin, and a fine interior pellicle adhering to the kernel.

They are united in pairs, in capsules garnished with points, from which they escape about the 1st of Oc- tober, the season of their maturity.