 | 1831 - 796 pages
...species of pine*or spruce: it is exceedingly strong and singularly durable. In Canada it is considered as the most valuable timber, and has no fault except its weight. In the state of Maine it is esteemed •njpre than any other species of resinous wood for the knees of vessels,... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Arboriculture - 1832 - 410 pages
...At the base of each scale lie two minute winged seeds. On some stocks the cones are violet-colored in the spring instead of green ; but this is an accidental...larch is superior to any species of pine or spruce : it is exceedingly strong and singularly durable. In Canada it is considered as the most valuable... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Arboriculture - 1832 - 426 pages
...the base of each scale lie two minute •winged seeds. On some stocks the cones are violet-colored in the spring instead of green ; but this is an accidental...larch is superior to any species of pine or spruce : it is exceedingly strong and singularly durable. In Canada it is considered as the most valuable... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 680 pages
...and 50ft. high. The wood, in America, and especially in Canada, according to Michaux, is considered among the most valuable timber, and has no fault except...other resinous wood, for the knees of vessels ; and Michaux thinks that it would be much more employed in America than it is, if it were not comparatively... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Botany - 1838 - 442 pages
...violet-colored in the spring, instead of green ; but this is an accidental variation, for the trees are in, DS other respect peculiar. * ( The wood of the American...larch is superior to any species of pine or spruce ; it is exceedingly strong and singularly durable. In Canada it is considered as the most valuable... | |
 | Massachusetts. Agricultural Survey, Henry Colman - Agriculture - 1838 - 148 pages
...with a straight slender trunk, eighty or a hundred feet in height, and two or three feet in diameter. The wood of the American Larch is superior to any species of pine or spruce ; it is exceedingly strong and singularly durable. In Canada it is considered as the most valuable... | |
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - Canada - 1846 - 326 pages
...northern parts of New Brunswick, where it is extensively used in ship-building, it is called Juniper. The wood of the American Larch is superior to any...species, being exceedingly strong and singularly durable. Turpentine is never extracted from it in America, as is done from the native species in Europe. The... | |
 | New Brunswick. Government emigration office - Railroads - 1847 - 136 pages
...attain even a greater age in New Brunswick. Properties and Uses. — Michaux the younger says — " The wood of the American Larch is superior to any...being exceedingly strong, and singularly durable." Tredgold says it is extremely durable in all situations, failing only where any other wood would fail;... | |
 | Moses Henry Perley - New Brunswick - 1854 - 278 pages
...Province, but of greater or less size, they abound throughout New-Brunswick. The wood of the American larch unites all the properties which distinguish the European...being exceedingly strong, and singularly durable. It is highly esteemed, especially for knees, the butt of the stem and one of the principal roots forming... | |
 | America North, Henry Youle Hind - Canada - 1863 - 858 pages
...but, of greater or less size, they abound throughout New Brunswick. The wood of the American larch unites all the properties which distinguish the European...being exceedingly strong, and singularly durable. It is highly esteemed, especially for knees, the but of the stem and one of the principal roots forming... | |
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The wood of the American Larch is superior to any species of Pine or Spruce , and unites all the properties which distinguish the European species , being exceedingly strong and singularly durable. 
