Foster, Edwin W · Boston : Ginn and Company · leaf 113
104 ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING The tree is sugar-loaf in shape, gives a dense shade,and has sweet flowers so fragrant that it is sometimescalled the hee tree, because the bees swarm all over itin the summer time. Its timber is valuable, being free … Fig. 114, American Linden, or Basswood, showing the 8ugar-Loaf Form of the Tree from knots and of such an even grain that it is muchsought after for some kinds of carving. The familiar cigar-store Indian is usually carved frombasswood. Among the broad-leaved trees there are still severalfamiliar…
Woodwork · Trees
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