. Wood and forest . eitlierin a radial or a tangential section, as in maple, Fig. 25, and Fig. 2G. Curly grain refers to the figure of circlets and islets and con-tours, often of great beaut\-, caused by cutting a flat surface in. Curlv (iiained buiiy-Ieal-fine(full size;. Fijf 2S. Curl3-Yellow Poplar(full size). crooked-grained wood. See Fig. 27, curly long-leaf pine, and Fig. 28,yellow poplar. When such crookedness is fine and the fibers are con-torted and, as it were, crowded out of place, as is common in andnear the roots of trees, the cflect is called burl, Fig. 29. The termburl i
. Wood and forest . eitlierin a radial or a tangential section, as in maple, Fig. 25, and Fig. 2G. Curly grain refers to the figure of circlets and islets and con-tours, often of great beaut\-, caused by cutting a flat surface in. Curlv (iiained buiiy-Ieal-fine(full size;. Fijf 2S. Curl3-Yellow Poplar(full size). crooked-grained wood. See Fig. 27, curly long-leaf pine, and Fig. 28,yellow poplar. When such crookedness is fine and the fibers are con-torted and, as it were, crowded out of place, as is common in andnear the roots of trees, the cflect is called burl, Fig. 29. The termburl is also used to designate knots and knobs on tree tiunks. Fig. is used chiefly in veneers. 36 WOOD AND rORESX. Ivregularity of grain is often caused 1)y tlie presence of adventi-tious and doiniant buds, wliicli may be plainly seen as little knobson the surface of some trees under the baric. Iir most trees, theseirregularities are soon buried and smoothed over by the successive an-nual layers of wood, but in some woods there is a tendency to pre-serve the irreo-ularities. On slash (tangent) boards of such wood.
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