A renowned Roman general.


Is the wood of the Cherry Tree useful?

It is used in cabinet-making, for boxes, and other articles.


What is Bark?

The exterior part of trees, which serves them as a skin or covering.

_Exterior_, the outside.


Does it not undergo some change during the year?

Each year the bark of a tree divides, and distributes itself two
contrary ways, the outer part gives towards the skin, till it becomes
skin itself, and at length falls off; the inner part is added to the
wood. The bark is to the body of a tree, what the skin of our body is
to the flesh.


Of what use is Bark?

Bark is useful for many things: of the bark of willows and linden
trees, ropes are sometimes made. The Siamese make their cordage of the
cocoa tree bark, as do most of the Asiatic and African nations; in the
East Indies, they make the bark of a certain tree into a kind of