id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 45032 Snow, Charles H. (Charles Henry) The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties First Edition .txt text/plain 45081 6580 77 States are the species known popularly as pine, fir, oak, hickory, The broad, flat leaves of trees such as oaks and chestnuts The oaks, elms, maples, and other so-called hard woods are of trees for ornamental purposes, but Americans value them for wood. separate the woods into white and black ash, the former including the Trunks of trees affording these woods are generally small and the same tree might at one time afford white and at another red wood. [Footnote 45: Three of the four United States species are trees; the Tulip Tree, Whitewood, Yellow Poplar (local and common names). White Pine Tree (_P. The Sugar Pine (_Pinus lambertiana_) of the Western States is a tree Light, soft, easily worked, resembles white pine (_Pinus strobus_). Heartwood light brown or red, thick sapwood yellow to nearly white. Wood, used similarly to black spruce, is substituted for white pine. ./cache/45032.txt ./txt/45032.txt