INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
FIGURE | PAGE | |
1. | Plank properly fixed with heart side against the beam | 5 |
2. | Plank improperly fixed with outside against the beam | 5 |
3 a, b. | Medullary rays, or silver grain | 6 |
3 c. | Concentric circles, or annual layers | 6 |
4. | Conversion of sap-wood into heart-wood | 9 |
5. | ConversionDo. of sap-wooddo. partially completed | 9 |
6. | Conical or tapering form of woody layers | 15 |
7. | Pith, snake-like form of | 24 |
8 a, b. | Heart-shake defect | 28 |
9. | Heart-shake„ defect„ twisting form | 29 |
10. | Heart-shake„ defect„ at right angles to each other | 29 |
11. | Star-shake defect | 30 |
12 a,b. | Cup-shake defect | 31 |
13. | Defect caused by a broken brand | 37 |
14. | Proper mode of pruning | 38 |
15. | Rindgall defect | 39 |
16 a, b. | British Oak, Rough, form of log | 72 |
17 a, b. | Sided, form of logdo. | 73 |
18. | British Oakdo. Compass, form of logdo. | 74 |
19. | British Oakdo. Compass, form of logdo. | 74 |
20 a, b. | French Oak, mode of hewing | 79 |
21 a, b. | Italian Oak, compass form of log | 86 |
22. | Riga Oak, semicircular, compass form of logdo. | 96 |
23. | African Oak, irregular, compass form of logdo. | 146 |
24. | Spanish Mahogany, general, compass form of logdo. | 170 |
25. | Jarrah, mode of flitching | 193 |
26 a, b. | English Elm, rough, form of log | 223 |
27. | Canada Rock Elm, defective annual layers | 226 |
28 a., b. | Canada Red Pine, mode of hewing | 272 |
29. | Canada Yellow Pine. mode of hewing„ | 277 |
30. | Yellow Pine.„ Section showing seven pieces taken across the full breadth of the tree | 279 |
31. | Canada Yellow Pine. Section showing eight pieces, taken across the full breadth of the treedo. | 282 |
32 a, b, c. | American Pitch Pine. Section and twelve lengths of the inner and outer layers | 288 |
33. | New Zealand Kaurie. Section showing four pieces taken from one side, and two pieces from the other side of pith | 298 |
34. | New Zealand Kaurie. Section, and butt, middle, and top lengths, three on each side of the pith | 300 |