. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . fibers ofthe first kind which are extensively used for flat strips of willow, poplar (Fig. 253), and other softwoods form the chip of which chip hats are braided. Similarstrips of ash (Fig. 245), hickory (Fig. 30), and other hardwoods which spht easily and evenly make the splint which iswoven into large market baskets, chair bottoms and backs,. Fig. 226.—Amadou (Fomes fomentarius. Pore-mushroom Family. Poly-poraceae). C. fruit-body growing out like a bracket from the side of atree, h. D, The same cut vertically, to show the n
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . fibers ofthe first kind which are extensively used for flat strips of willow, poplar (Fig. 253), and other softwoods form the chip of which chip hats are braided. Similarstrips of ash (Fig. 245), hickory (Fig. 30), and other hardwoods which spht easily and evenly make the splint which iswoven into large market baskets, chair bottoms and backs,. Fig. 226.—Amadou (Fomes fomentarius. Pore-mushroom Family. Poly-poraceae). C. fruit-body growing out like a bracket from the side of atree, h. D, The same cut vertically, to show the numerous fine tubesextending downward vertically from which the dust-like spores fall. §.(Hennings.)—Brownish or grayish above, rich brown within. Nativehome, Eurasia, North America, parasitic on beech, etc. and the like. White pine and spruce, shredded by machinery,yield the familiar packing material kno^\m as excelsior. Spruceand poplar are the chief woods used for the wood pulp fromwhich the cheaper grades of paper are made, or as an in-gredient in book papers of higher cjuality. Thus the paperof this book is made of cotton rags mixed with poplar Wood in general. In economic importance woodsrank next to vegetable fibers. Just as the great use of fibersis for clothing, which is almost as necessary to us as food,so the great use of wood is for buildings, which are scarcely 242 INDUSTRIAL PL
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