The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties / First Edition

The work presents a concise, nontechnical survey of economically important woods, opening with definitions and explanations of wood structure, weights, coefficients, sapwood and heartwood, growth rings, and sawing distinctions. It provides species-by-species accounts of distribution, structural and physical properties, commercial divisions, botanical characteristics, and typical uses for many broadleaf and exogenous species — including oaks, ashes, elms, maples, walnuts, hickories, chestnut, beech, sycamore, birch, locust, poplar, and willow — and is supplemented by numerous plates and illustrations to aid identification and comparative selection for design, construction, and timber use.