The Trees of America; Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and Scientifically and Popularly DescribedHarper & brothers, 1857 - 520 páginas |
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... wood , and Yellow Poplar , from the colour of its timber ; Canoe wood , from the use to which it is applied by the native Indians ; and Saddle - tree , from the form of its leaves . The French and German names are literal translations ...
... wood , and Yellow Poplar , from the colour of its timber ; Canoe wood , from the use to which it is applied by the native Indians ; and Saddle - tree , from the form of its leaves . The French and German names are literal translations ...
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... wood is easily wrought , and polishes well . When dry , a cubic foot weighs twenty - five pounds . It affords excellent charcoal , the product of which , from dry wood , is twenty - two per cent . The heart - wood , when separated from ...
... wood is easily wrought , and polishes well . When dry , a cubic foot weighs twenty - five pounds . It affords excellent charcoal , the product of which , from dry wood , is twenty - two per cent . The heart - wood , when separated from ...
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Daniel Jay Browne. the sap - wood . The grain , also , is coarser and harder , and the wood decays more speedily ; hence , it is neglected when the other variety can be obtained . The yellow poplar possesses every quality requisite to ...
Daniel Jay Browne. the sap - wood . The grain , also , is coarser and harder , and the wood decays more speedily ; hence , it is neglected when the other variety can be obtained . The yellow poplar possesses every quality requisite to ...
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... wood and shoots resemble those of the common lime ; but it does not attain the same height . There is a good specimen of this tree at Walton , upon the Thames , sixty feet high ; and several others at High Clere , in Berkshire , some of ...
... wood and shoots resemble those of the common lime ; but it does not attain the same height . There is a good specimen of this tree at Walton , upon the Thames , sixty feet high ; and several others at High Clere , in Berkshire , some of ...
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... wood . Many of the fine carvings in Windsor Castle , Trinity College Library , at Cambridge , and in the Duke of Devonshire's mansion , at Chatsworth , are of this wood . It is said to make excellent charcoal for gunpowder , even better ...
... wood . Many of the fine carvings in Windsor Castle , Trinity College Library , at Cambridge , and in the Duke of Devonshire's mansion , at Chatsworth , are of this wood . It is said to make excellent charcoal for gunpowder , even better ...
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