. Timber and timber trees, native and foreign . Timber; Trees. IV.] HEART-SHAKE. 29 very scant, or perhaps to trees unequally balanced in their branches, if grown in the open. There is some- thing like evidence of this twisting in the spiral turns of grain noticed in many trees.* The heart-shakes are equally disadvantageous, if, indeed, they are not more. FIG. 9. so, when they cross each other at the pith, and open to the full diameter of the tree, splitting it into four seg- ments. This form of the defect is very conspicuous in the Green-heart timber (Fig. 10).. Please note that these images
. Timber and timber trees, native and foreign . Timber; Trees. IV.] HEART-SHAKE. 29 very scant, or perhaps to trees unequally balanced in their branches, if grown in the open. There is some- thing like evidence of this twisting in the spiral turns of grain noticed in many trees.* The heart-shakes are equally disadvantageous, if, indeed, they are not more. FIG. 9. so, when they cross each other at the pith, and open to the full diameter of the tree, splitting it into four seg- ments. This form of the defect is very conspicuous in the Green-heart timber (Fig. 10).. 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 Laslett, Thomas. London : Macmillan
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