 | François André Michaux - Science - 1819 - 414 pages
...their seeds the first year , are about 2 inches long , rounded at the base and abruptly pointed. The concentrical circles are crowded in the Red Pine,...the resinous matter with which it is impregnated, and in Canada, Nova Scotia and the District of Maine, it is highly esteemed for strength and durability,... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Arboriculture - 1832 - 426 pages
...the first year, are about two inches long, rounded at the base and abruptly pointed. The concentric circles are crowded in the red pine, and the wood,...the resinous matter with which it is impregnated, and in Canada, Nova Scotia and the state of Maine, it is highly esteemed for strength and durability,... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Arboriculture - 1832 - 410 pages
...the first year, are about two inches long, rounded at the base and abruptly pointed. The concentric circles are crowded in the red pine, and the wood, when wrought, exhibits a fine, compact grain. It z's rendered heavy by the resinous matter with which it is impregnated, and in Canada, Nova Scotia... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Botany - 1838 - 442 pages
...any other species in the United States; hence is derived its popular name, Red Pine. The concentric circles are crowded in the red pine, and the wood,...the resinous matter with which it is. impregnated, and in Canada, NovaScotia, and the state of Maine, it ishighly esteemed for strength and durability,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 680 pages
...long, rounded at the base, and abrnptly pointed. The concentric circles of the wood are very close ; and the wood, when wrought, exhibits a fine compact grain. It is very heavy ; and this, according to Michaux, arises from the quantity of resinous matter with which... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 552 pages
...with extermination from the greediness and improvidence of the lumbermen. Properties and Uses. — The concentrical circles are crowded in the red pine,...sap-wood of red pine should always be hewn away, as the heart- wood is then much more durable. The mainmast of the " St. Lawrence," a ship of war of fifty... | |
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... which have left but a comparatively small quantity existing in the Province, should teach a useful lesson with regard to the other valuable timber trees of the country, some of which are threatened with extermination from the greediness and improvidence... 