Descriptive catalogue of the woods commonly employed in this country for the mechanical and ornamental arts (1852)
London : Holtzapffel · leaf 61
d and twentieth of an inch, as the external series can no longer fill out the original extent of the annual ring, the same as they did before they were dried ; they divide, not singly, but into groups, as the unyielding center, or the incompressible mass within the arch, causes the parts of which… … The ends being the most exposed to the air are the first attacked, and there the splits are principally radial with occa-
Wood -- Identification · Woodwork -- Great Britain
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