Ribbons may be pulled off as thin as the rings of annual growth, that is, from an eighth to a sixteenth of an inch thick.
The wide rings of annual growth in the heartwood show fine contrast in color, and when these are developed by stains and fillers, the grain or figure of the wood is very pleasing.
The figures desired are not those produced by the medullary rays, but by the rings of annual growth.
It is a characteristic of the wood to part readily along the rings of annual growth.
Wood light brown, with nearly white sapwood of 25--30 layers of annual growth.
Wood heavy, slightly fragrant, light reddish brown, with nearly white sapwood and eccentric layers of annual growth; largely used for fencing and fuel.
Wood light brown, with thin nearly white sapwood of 20--30 layers of annual growth.
Annual growth slowed to 5%, still above the rate in most other countries of the world.
The parallel rows of vessels here seen are the rings of annual growth, but in one part they are imperfectly preserved, the wood having probably decayed before the mineralising matter had penetrated to that portion of the tree.
In one silicified trunk 200 rings ofannual growth could be counted.
Such a process of petrifaction is still more remarkably exhibited in fossil wood, in which we often perceive not only the rings of annual growth, but all the minute vessels and medullary rays.
Several of them were a foot and a half in diameter, and some yards in length, decidedly of coniferous wood, and showing rings of annual growth.
The beech reaches its maximum ofannual growth at one hundred and twenty years.
Having made an incision to a certain depth, he first counted three hundred rings of annual growth, and observed what thickness the tree had gained in that period.
We can ascertain the age of an oak or pine by counting the number of concentric rings of annual growth seen in a transverse section near the base, so that we may know the date at which the seedling began to vegetate.
The parallel rows of vessels here seen are the rings of annual growth, but in one part they are imperfectly preserved, the wood having probably decayed before the mineralizing matter had penetrated to that portion of the tree.
Annual growth slowed to 5%, still above the rate in most other countries of the world, and recovered to 6.
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