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STUDIES OF TREES 



The best grades of fiii'ured red gum resemble Circassian 



walnut, but the latter has much larger jjores unevenly 



distributed and is less cross-grained than red gum. 



The wood is used for finishing, flooring, furniture, veneers, 



slack cooperage, boxes, and gun stocks. 



5, Black or sweet birch, Fig. 151. Hays variable in size 



Fig. 152. — Maple. (Magnified 25 times,) 



but all rather indistinct. Color brown, tinged with red, 



often deep and handsome. Wood hea^y, hard, and strong, 



straight-grained, readily worked. Is darker in color 



and has less prominent rays than maple. 



The wood is used for furniture, cabinet work, finishing, and 



distillation. 



6. Cottonwood. Raj'S extremely fine and scarcely visible 



even under lens. Color pale dull brown or grayish brown. 



