When they require repairing, the owners find ash planking scarce and dear.
Trees may be said to change their garments thrice in the season.

In the spring the woods at Okebourne were of the tenderest green, which, as the summer drew on, lost its delicacy of hue.

Then came the second or 'midsummer shoot,' brightening them with fresh leaves and fresh green.

The second shoot of the oak is reddish: there was one oak in the Chace which after midsummer thus became ruddy from the highest to the lowest branch; others did not show the change nearly so much.
Lastly came the brown and yellow autumn tints..