. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Shade Tree and Timbek Destroying Fungi. 253 Trametes Abietis on The Ked Spruce. An interesting example of a red spruce {Picea ruhra) was exam- ined during September, 1898, in the Adirondack mountains. This was near Nehasane, Herkimer Co., on the tract owned by Dr. Seward Webb. Througli the courtesy of Prof. C. S. Graves, who then had the supervision of the forestry operations on this tract, I liad the privilege of following the lumbernmn for two days to
. Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Shade Tree and Timbek Destroying Fungi. 253 Trametes Abietis on The Ked Spruce. An interesting example of a red spruce {Picea ruhra) was exam- ined during September, 1898, in the Adirondack mountains. This was near Nehasane, Herkimer Co., on the tract owned by Dr. Seward Webb. Througli the courtesy of Prof. C. S. Graves, who then had the supervision of the forestry operations on this tract, I liad the privilege of following the lumbernmn for two days to inspect trees, or portions of trees, which were discarded after they had been felled. In this particular case the entire tree had been discarded, although two loc>:s liad been cut from the trunk. On approaching the tree I first came upon the stump, and searched here for some evidence of the reason for rejecting the timber. Near the periphery of the stump, in the older sap wood near its junction with the heart wood was a crescent shaped area in cross section about 3 cm. broad and 15 cm. loner. This was distinctly marked off from the surrounding portion by the coarser fractures of the wood bv the cross cut saw used in fellino- the tree. This indicated that the wood was here slightly '' ; The remainder of the stump was sound. This small area showing such a slight alteration in the wood probably would not have been considered objectionable. On examining the cut made for the first log, 16 feet above, the entire heart proved to be badly decayed. A large part of the sap wood was also invaded, and the cambium was being encroached npon. There remained onl}^ a thick shell of living and unaffected tissue underneath the bark. The heart wood was so soft that the fracture from the saw teeth was irregular, roughly cut and partially "ironed" down by friction from the saw blade. Still another log above this one had been cut off by the woodmen in the. 87.— Pockets of de
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