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Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rub! This brightens the rich orangered of the grain and makes the intricate and beautiful patternsof it stand out with striking clearness through the transparentdressing. A soft lustre follows persistent rubbing. This processis by no means restricted to pine. Any wood with handsomegrain warrants the oil finish. Glaring is a process used in finishing fretwork which cannotbe reached by the polishing rag or that is too frail to be rubbed.Spindles of fancy chairs and cabinets, grilled archways and thelike require it, while the rest of the article is polished. Inlaywork is often glazed. The preparation is made of some choicegum dissolved in methylated spirits. This enamelling of woodto a china-like finish is comparable to the lacquer work of theJapanese artisans, a secret process which produces, from themilky juice of a tree closely related to our own poison sumach, acoating that resembles patent leather on boxes and innumerablefancy articles made out of the soft, white magnolia wood. 54*
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Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company FLOWER AND BUD OF GREAT RHODODENDRON (Rhododendron maximum) CHAPTER IV: WOODEN PAPER Once upon a time paper grew on trees, and within the pastquarter of a century the world has turned again to the forestsas the source of its supply. Thin sheets of the inner bark ofbirch in America and Europe, and of the paper mulberry inAsiatic countries preserved the crude characters by which primitivepeoples expressed themselves. The names—beech, beece, boc,bok, buch, book—link the past with the present in the races sprungfrom Teutonic stock. They sent messages from tribe to tribewritten in symbols on thin beechen boards—their first writtencommunications. Afterward, the old Scandinavian and Icelandicrunes were written on the same sort of wood, and many boardsconstituted a book. The word liber, Latin for book, is thename of the inner bark of trees; in botany the term has alwaysbeen used. The word library, therefore, has a long andinteresting ped

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