SPECIES OE WOODS. 



12' 



Physical Qualities : Weight, medium 

 (33(1 in this list) ; 37 lbs. per eu. ft.; 

 sp. gr. 0.5955; veiy strong (14th in this 

 list) ; verj' elastic (2d in this list) ; me- 

 dium hard (39th in this list) ; shrink- 

 age, 6 per cent. ; warps, ; not 



durable, except bark; easy to work; splits 

 with difllcrdty, nails well, tough. 



Common Uses: Spools, shoe lasts and 

 pegs, turnery, bark for canoes. 



Remarks: Forms forests. Sap yields 

 syrup. Bark yields starch. Valuable to 

 woodsmen in many ways. 



Radial Section, 

 life size. 



Cross-section, 

 magnitied 37 y2 diameters. 



Tangential Section, 

 life size. 



