. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture -- Great Britain; cbk. PLANTING. and exhibit a numerous series of fragments of rays, filling- up the spaces between the primary ones, obvious to the naked eye, and rendering the silver grain, as it is called, of the beech very distinct from any other kind of wood. The wood of the Spanish or sweet chestnut (e) has often been con- founded with that of the oak; but its characters of distinction are very obvious. It agrees with the oak in having the secondary rays equally disposed, almost strai
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture -- Great Britain; cbk. PLANTING. and exhibit a numerous series of fragments of rays, filling- up the spaces between the primary ones, obvious to the naked eye, and rendering the silver grain, as it is called, of the beech very distinct from any other kind of wood. The wood of the Spanish or sweet chestnut (e) has often been con- founded with that of the oak; but its characters of distinction are very obvious. It agrees with the oak in having the secondary rays equally disposed, almost straight, and, though close to each other, yet not crowded as in the elm and beech ; it differs, in the primary rays being scarcely to be distinguished from the secondary, whilst in the oak these are prominent and obvious to the naked eye on the slightest inspection. The concentric layers are regnlariy curved, whilst in the oak they are strikingly waved. The mouths of the tubular vessels, which constitute so obvious a part of these anntial rings, or layers, are disposed in triangular masses in the oak ; on the contrary, in the chestnut they are in regular 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 Burke, John French. London Baldwin and Cradock
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