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ANALYSES 
16. Red Beech (Fagusferruginea). 
Tree a little hollow at the base. Diameter three feet from the ground, 28 inches; fourteen feet from the 
ground, 22 inches, sound. Average thickness of the bark, | inch. Section for analysis taken fourteen 
feet from the ground. Age 240 years. Growth quite uniform. Average thickness of each layer, 
0-0453 of an inch. Between 60 and 65 outside layers taken for outside wood; the remaining layers 
for inside wood. 
Bark. 
Outside wood. 
Heart wood. 
Bark of twigs. 
Wood of twigs. 
Potash --- 
0 
•13 
12-13 
4-04 
0-63 
11-00 
Soda ... 
15-58 
25-53 
4-63 
11-79 
Chloride of sodium 
0-05 
0-24 
0-14 
0-16 
Sulphuric acid 
0-47 
0-62 
4-54 
14-68 
Carbonic acid 
40 
•41 
24-39 
24-59 
18-18 
1-79 
Lime ... 
52 
•29 
31-56 
31-82 
23-52 
2-31 
Magnesia 
0 
•32 
5-44 
1-44 
3-41 
6-08 
Phosphate of peroxide of 
iron, 
t 
0-85 
0-40 
0-41 
0-80 
Phosphate of lime 
( 1 
96 } 
17-23 
22-04 
18.89 
35-60 
Phosphate of magnesia 
) 
( 
0-93 
0-02 
0-10 
10-89 
Organic matter 
1-86 
2-80 
3-01 
10-50 
Insoluble silica 
3 
30 
1-45 
1-60 
29-00 
0-92 
Coal 
- 
1- 
50 
0-31 
99- 
91 S. 
111-99 S. 
115-14 S. 
106-46 S. 
106-83 S. 
17. Black Cherry (Cerasus serotina ). 
Tree sound. Diameter three feet from the ground, 36 inches; twelve feet from the ground, 30i inches; 
seventy-two feet from the ground, 24 inches. From base to limbs, 72 feet; whole height, 104 feet. 
Average thickness of bark, £ inch. Number of layers twelve feet from the ground, 227. Average 
thickness of each layer, 0-06387 of an inch. The tree grew most rapidly during the first 100 years 
of its life; for the last 60 years, growth very slow. 
Bark. 
Outside wood. 
Heart wood. 
Wood of twigs. 
Potash 
- 
0-07 
4-93 
5-94 
10-12 
Soda ... 
- 
8-86 
14-39 
12-28 
13-77 
Chloride of sodium 
- 
0-08 
0-12 
0-12 
0-26 
Sulphuric acid 
- 
1-91 
19-25 
2-01 
9-76 
Carbonic acid 
- 
26-31 
6-75 
22-78 
10-33 
Lime 
- 
46-99 
21-67 
19-12 
8-19 
Magnesia ... 
- 
1-16 
2-24 
0-21 
4-24 
Phosphate of peroxide of 
iron, 
1-01 
1-61 
1-90 
0-80 
Phosphate of lime 
5-85 
12-70 
9-94 
25-25 
Phosphate of magnesia 
0-84 
2-44 
2-76 
1-20 
Organic matter 
4-01 
3-60 
6-01 
7-20 
Insoluble silica 
1-20 
5-80 
10-70 
1-10 
Coal .... 
1-80 
1-70 
5-20 
3-20 
Moisture - 
3-40 
3-30 
100-09 S. 
100-60 S. 
98-97 S. 
98-72 
