Birch-wood is thought to make the best charcoal, and its soot is a good lamp-black for printers' ink. The leaves are good fodder for horses, kine, sheep, and goats; and the seeds are the favourite food of the Siskin, or Averdevine.

— Elizabeth Kent Sylvan Sketches (1825)

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