In the future, we shall have to compete in the softwood export business with Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway and the various states of southeastern Europe which sell lumber.
We export hickory, black walnut, yellow poplar, white and red oak even to Russia and Sweden, countries that are our keenest rivals in the softwood export business.
I knew she was uneasy about the softwood odds and ends, but I couldn't help that--she'd still be sentimental about them if she had a stack of firewood as big as the house.
There were plenty of splinters and ends of softwood that were mine by right of purchase and labour.
Softwood cuttings, treated the same as the previous year, were inserted on August 20.
We are leaving budding and grafting to experienced workers throughout the country and are endeavoring to develop a method for rooting chestnuts from softwood cuttings.
In the propagation experiments, preliminary observations were made by placing softwood cuttings in a bottom-heated cold frame at intervals during the growing season.
The softwoodcutting is made from tissue which is still growing, or at least from that which is not dormant.
Only the tip of the cutting is stuck into the sand; otherwise it is treated like other softwood cuttings.
It is apparent, therefore, that the terms hardwood andsoftwood are commercial rather than scientific.
In that respect it differs from the other well-known sprouting softwood of this country, the California redwood, whose numerous sprouts grow into large trunks.
Some which are classed as hardwoods are softer than some in the softwood list.
The medullary rays are numerous, and for a softwood they are prominent.
There are more species of hardwoods than of softwoods in this country; but the actual quantity of softwood timber in the forests greatly exceeds the hardwoods.
The writer (15) has occasionally produced roots on softwood cuttings of pecan and hickory set in a mist humidified greenhouse but the cuttings did not survive.
The southern or yellow pine is the leading softwood or coniferous tree which thrives in Virginia because of the sandy soil of the coastal plain.
There are many hardwood andsoftwood varieties in Virginia.
