NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



adds another and distinctive note of interest 

 to the grain of the finished wood. 



In order to secure the opinion of practical 

 men upon the new wood, samples were sub- 

 mitted to wood - workers, furniture finishers, 

 carvers, painters, and merchant lumbermen. 

 It was particularly interesting to note the ex- 

 pression upon the faces of these matter-of-fact 

 men as they saw, the first of all industrialists 

 to look upon it, this new factor in the manu- 

 facturing forces of the world. After the initial 

 exclamation of wonderment, out would come 

 a pocket rule, to measure the annular growth, 

 each man seeming to doubt his own eyes. 

 Then a sharp knife would be whipped out to 

 test the wood for hardness ; or, if it were a 

 painter or finisher at work, brushes were at 

 once dropped and a close and critical exam- 

 ination and test of the grain of the wood 

 followed, volleys of questions being fired 

 meanwhile. 



Welding together many opinions expressed 

 by these practical men, these statements may 

 be taken as the consensus: 



The production of a hard wood of the 

 character of this at such a phenomenal rate of 



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