 | Daniel Jay Browne - Arboriculture - 1832 - 426 pages
...toward the centre, produces spots of half a line in diameter, sometimes contiguous, and at other times several lines apart. The more numerous the spots,...more esteemed is the wood : this variety is called Birds-eye Maple. Like the curled maple it is used for inlaying mahogany. Bedsteads are made of it and... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Arboriculture - 1832 - 410 pages
...toward the centre, produces spots of half a line in diameter, sometimes contiguous, and at other times several lines apart. The more numerous the spots,...more esteemed is the wood : this variety is called Birds-eye Maple. Like the curled maple it is used for inlaying mahogany. Bedsteads are made of it and... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 754 pages
...an inflexion of the fibre from the circumference towards the centre, produces spots of half a line in diameter, sometimes contiguous, and sometimes several...more esteemed is the wood. This variety is called bird'seye maple. Like the curled maple, it is used for inlaying mahogany. Bedsteads are made of it,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1863 - 654 pages
...an inflection of the fibre from the circumference towards the centre, producing spots of half a line in diameter, sometimes contiguous, and sometimes several...wood. This variety is called " bird's-eye maple." Maple ia now imported in considerable quantities from New Brunswick, and fetches a high price; 413... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1863 - 590 pages
...circumference towards the centre, producing spots of half a line in diameter, sometimes con~ tiguous, and sometimes several lines apart. The more numerous...more esteemed is the wood. This variety is called " bird-s eye maple." Maple is now imported in considerable quantities from New Brunswick and fetches... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 552 pages
...an inflexion of the fibre from the circumference toward the centre, producing spots of half a line in diameter, sometimes contiguous, and sometimes several...and backwoodsmen as has heretofore been the case. The ancients held the maple in great esteem ; and tables inlaid with curious portions of it, or formed... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 522 pages
...towards the centre, produces minute spots, sometimes contiguous and at other limes wide apart. The moro numerous the spots, the more beautiful and the more esteemed is the wood. This variety is known to our cabinet-makers by the name of ' bird's-eye maple,' and is much used for inlaying and veneering.... | |
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... first consists in undulations, like those of the red-flowering maple, and is likewise known as " curled maple ;" the second, which takes place only in old trees that are still sound, appears to arise from an inflexion of the fibre from the circumference... 