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WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
considerable thickness of bole, so has no importance as timber, 
but the turner, the cabinet-maker, and the artist in fancy 
pipes and snuff-boxes, are glad to make use of its fine-grained, 
pale-brown wood. This is often beautifully veined, especially 
the wood from the roots, and as it will take a high polish. 
which brings out these markings plainly, it is a very desirable 
wood for such purposes. The brown bark gives little clue 
to the character of the wood it covers, for in young trees 
it is rough and deeply fissured, though with age it becomes 
smooth. 
