Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear If the logs are kept a year; Store your beech for Christmastide With new-cut holly laid beside; Chestnut's only good, they say, If for years 'tis stored away; Birch and fir-wood burn too fast Blaze too bright and do not last; Flames from larch will shoot up high, Dangerously the sparks will fly; But ash-wood green and ash-wood brown Are fit for a Queen with a golden crown.
Oaken logs, if dry and old, Keep away the winter's cold; Poplar gives a bitter smoke, Fills your eyes and makes you choke; Elm-wood burns like churchyard mould, E'en the very flames are cold; It is by the Irish said; Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread, Apple-wood will scent the room, Pear-wood smells like flowers in bloom; But ash-wood wet and ash-wood dry A King may warm his slippers by.
Anon.
WOOD FIRES POEM
Beech wood fires burn bright and clear, If the logs are kept a year. Oaken logs burn steadily, If the wood is old and dry. But ash dry or ash green, Makes a fire fit for a queen.
Logs of birch wood burn too fast, There’s a fire that will not last! Chestnut’s only good ,they say, If for long it’s laid away. But ash new or ash old Is fit for a queen with a crown of gold!
Poplar makes a bitter smoke, Fills your eyes and makes you choke! It is by the Irish said, Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread. But ash green or ash brown Is fit for a queen with a golden crown.
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould, Even the very flames are cold. Apple logs will fill your room, With an incense -like perfume. But ash wet or ash dry For a queen to warm her slippers by!
WOOD FIRES POEM 2
Logs to burn, logs to burn, logs to save the coal a turn Here's a word to make you wise when you hear the Woodman's Cries, Never heed his usual tale, that he has good logs for sale, But read these lines and really learn, the proper kind of logs to burn. OAK logs willwarm you well, if they are old and dry; LARCH logs of pinewood smell, but the sparks will fly BEECH logs for Christmas time YEW logs heat well SCOTCH,it is a crime for anyone to sell BIRCH logs will burn too fast, CHESTNUT scarce at all HAWTHORN logs are good to last, if cut in the fall. HOLLY logs will burn like wax, you should burn them green; ELM logs are like smouldering flax, no flame to seen. PEAR logs and Apple logs they will scent your room CHERRY logs across the dogs, smell like flowers in bloom. POPULAR logs the "matchstick" wood, left to thoroughly dry; will make the best kindling to light your fire by. But ASH logs, so smooth and grey, burn them green or old Buy all that come your way as they are worth their weight in gold!
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) i have found that dry elm gives of tremendous heat. more so then oak or cherry. But it's hard to come by because of the elm disease. I should know, i'm Dutch...
