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straight-grained wood is used for pianos, etc. If cut on 
the quarter the wood often gives a very pretty figure, as the 
medullary rays are broad, well defined, and numerous. 
Fig. 13. — Beecli {Fwjus syJvatica). 
Beechwood is also well adapted for a good deal of wheel- 
wrights', cartwrights', and coachbuilders' work, and great 
quantities are used for broomheads in the Black Forest 
districts. In France it is much used for the making of 
sabots, being preferred to any other wood for this purjpose. 
