. A manual of the timbers of the world : their characteristics and uses : to which is appended an account by S. Fitzgerald of the artificial seasoning of timber. Timber. t w- ^M&S. Photograph by C. R. Keen. East Indian Satinvvood Logs, Ceylon. convertible wood. It is exceptional to find a plain log, for nearly all yield figured wood—from a simple light and dark coloured streak or stripe, or a broken stripe or roe, to a light and dark coloured broken roe with strong mottle. Some logs are full of brilliantly marked figure, generally of small character. R. S. Troup in some private notes on sa
. A manual of the timbers of the world : their characteristics and uses : to which is appended an account by S. Fitzgerald of the artificial seasoning of timber. Timber. t w- ^M&S. Photograph by C. R. Keen. East Indian Satinvvood Logs, Ceylon. convertible wood. It is exceptional to find a plain log, for nearly all yield figured wood—from a simple light and dark coloured streak or stripe, or a broken stripe or roe, to a light and dark coloured broken roe with strong mottle. Some logs are full of brilliantly marked figure, generally of small character. R. S. Troup in some private notes on satinwood, C. Swieteiiia, says : " The trade in satinwood is not nearly so important in India as in Ceylon. The tree is very common in parts of the Indian peninsula, the largest out - turn being from the Godaveri district of Madras ; apparently, however, it does not reach such large dimensions as in Ceylon. According to Gamble the cause of ' figury ' wood has been somewhat discussed. Mr. H. S. Hansard in Ceylon Forester (ii. 253) main- tains that it is caused by irregular growth from the cambium ; Mr. Armitage in the same paper, that it is caused by the irregular healing. 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 Howard, Alexander Liddon, 1863-1946; Fitzgerald, S. London : Macmillan
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