This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...have been made to rear it; but it needs the warm balmy air of its native clime to bring it to perfection, and with us it is a mere shrub. Norway Spruce Fir (Abies communis). The Spruce Fir attains its most majestic proportions in Norway. There, amid the mountains, and glens, and foaming torrents of the land in which it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...have been made to rear it; but it needs the warm balmy air of its native clime to bring it to perfection, and with us it is a mere shrub. Norway Spruce Fir (Abies communis). The Spruce Fir attains its most majestic proportions in Norway. There, amid the mountains, and glens, and foaming torrents of the land in which it delights to dwell, the tree presents a grand and beautiful appearance.. It rivals the Palm in stature, and even attains the height of one hundred and eighty feet. Its handsome branches spread out on every side, and clothe the trunk to its base, while the summit of the tree ends in an arrow-like point. In very old trees the branches droop at the extremities, and not only rest upon the ground, but actually take root in it, and grow. Thus a number of young trees are often seen clustering round the trunk of an old one. The wood of the Norway Spruce has from time immemorial been brought to our own country in entire trunks, and is used for scaffold-poles, and oars, and also as masts for small vessels. Sometimes it is sawn into planks, and is then known by the name of "white deal," to distinguish it from the "red deal" of the Scotch Fir.. Sometimes, however, the timber of the Spruce will have a tinge of red when it grows in the more fertile soil of the valley. Like the rest of its tribe, the Spruce Fir has a store of resin in its trunk. But it is of a different kind to that usually procured from the Pines. The sap does not flow out in the form of turpentine, but slowly oozes from between the bark and the alburnum, and hardens by exposure to the air. The chief product of the tree is the Burgundy pitch well known in our shops, and that is nothing more than the hardened sap, melted and clarified by boiling in water. Great care has t...
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