Comments on: burning ash http://dragonwood.org/2009/01/24/burning-ash/ Life in the Garden Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:32:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: gareth http://dragonwood.org/2009/01/24/burning-ash/#comment-551 gareth Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:41:21 +0000 http://dragonwood.org/?p=244#comment-551 I'm not surprised that your pleased with your ash fire. Theirs a old English rhyme that was born from hundreds of years of tried and tested experience. A time when people used this sort of knowledge as means of living and surviving. It goes. Beechwood fires are bright and clear If the logs are kept a year Chestnut only good they say If for long it's laid away Make a fire of elder tree Death within your house will be But ash new or ash old Is fit for a Queen with a crown of gold Birch and Fir logs burn too fast Blaze up bright and do not last It is by the Irish said Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread Elmwood burns like churchyard mould Even the very flames are cold But ash green or ash brown Is fit for a Queen with a golden crown Poplar gives a bitter smoke Fills your eyes and makes you choke Apple wood will scent your room With an incense-like perfume Oaken logs, if dry and old Keep away the winters cold But ash wet or ash dry A king shall warm his slippers by. I’m not surprised that your pleased with your ash fire. Theirs a old English rhyme that was born from hundreds of years of tried and tested experience. A time when people used this sort of knowledge as means of living and surviving. It goes.

Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year
Chestnut only good they say
If for long it’s laid away
Make a fire of elder tree
Death within your house will be
But ash new or ash old
Is fit for a Queen with a crown of gold

Birch and Fir logs burn too fast
Blaze up bright and do not last
It is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread
Elmwood burns like churchyard mould
Even the very flames are cold
But ash green or ash brown
Is fit for a Queen with a golden crown

Poplar gives a bitter smoke
Fills your eyes and makes you choke
Apple wood will scent your room
With an incense-like perfume
Oaken logs, if dry and old
Keep away the winters cold
But ash wet or ash dry
A king shall warm his slippers by.

]]> By: erwan http://dragonwood.org/2009/01/24/burning-ash/#comment-78 erwan Fri, 01 May 2009 12:48:40 +0000 http://dragonwood.org/?p=244#comment-78 Good article. It is very informative diagnose between ash and elm based on your experience. Good article. It is very informative diagnose between ash and elm based on your experience.

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