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STUDIES OF TREES 



stock, agricultural implements, oars, furniture, interior 

 finish, and cooix'rago. It is the best wood for bent work. 

 2. Locust. Pores in early wood in a rather narrow band, 

 round, variable in size, densely filled with tyloses. Color 

 varying from golden yellow to brown, often with greenish 

 hue. A'cry thin sapwood, white. Odorless and almost 



Fig. 149.— Hickory Wood. (Magnified 45 times.) 



tasteless. Wood extremely heavy and hard, cutting like 

 horn. Locust bears little resemblance to ash, being harder, 

 heavier, of a different color, with more distinct rays, and 

 with the pores in late wood in larger groups. 

 The wood is used for posts, cross-ties, wagon hubs, and 

 insulator pins. It is very durable in contact with the 

 ground, 

 (c) Pores in late wood comparatively large, not in groups 



