European White Birch (Betula alba)
"Nothing contributes more to the success of the seeds than previously burning the noxious herbs and bushes growing upon the ground. It is observed in the north of Europe and of the United States, that the Birch reappears, as if by enchantment, in forests that have been destroyed by fire.
I have entered these details concerning the propogation of the Birch, because, among the trees of the Old Continent, it is one of the most profitable for cultivation upon poor lands."
—The North American Sylva, p. 77
