5 APRIL 1919, Page 14

FIREWOODS.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.")

Stn,—Under the above heading in your issue of March 15th is a notice, reed with interest, of Mr. A. D. Webster's book. Your reviewer speaks of his classifying our timbers according to their heating values, bat it seems surprising that among the names of the various woods given by Mr. Webster there should be no mention of ash, which hero in Pembrokeshire (where, too, most fortunately it grows freely) is considered facile prfnceps the best firewood.—I am, Sir, he., A. E. Aurae Blackaldern, Narberth, Pembrokeshire.