. Timber and some of its diseases. Timber; Trees. 24 TIMBER AND SOME OF ITS DISEASES, [chap. rays of the pines and firs, and the coarse obvious ones of the oaks. Again, the prominence or minuteness, or even (Coni- ferae and a few MagnoHaceae) absence, of vessels in the secondary wood afford characters for Fig. 8.—Transverse section of wood of TamarIndus indica, Linn., selected to show a not UMCommon type of Asiatic timber. The annual rings are indistinct, but occasionally indicated by denser tissue {ciK The vessels are fairly large and few, and scattered much as in Fig. 7, but
. Timber and some of its diseases. Timber; Trees. 24 TIMBER AND SOME OF ITS DISEASES, [chap. rays of the pines and firs, and the coarse obvious ones of the oaks. Again, the prominence or minuteness, or even (Coni- ferae and a few MagnoHaceae) absence, of vessels in the secondary wood afford characters for Fig. 8.—Transverse section of wood of TamarIndus indica, Linn., selected to show a not UMCommon type of Asiatic timber. The annual rings are indistinct, but occasionally indicated by denser tissue {ciK The vessels are fairly large and few, and scattered much as in Fig. 7, but there are no such broad bands of cells as there. The contrast between the extremely small vessels of the box and the very large ones of some oaks and the chestnut, for instance, is too striking to be over- looked. Then, again, in some timbers the vessels are distributed more or less equably throughout the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ward, H. Marshall (Harry Marshall), 1854-1906. London, Macmillan
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