Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 17139 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 156.01 JUGLANDACEAE Juglans nigra | Entry Book Number | 20.1983 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Canada | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Woods size B | Related Items | |||
| Donor | BM (Nat. Hist.) | Donor No | CLVI.2 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1862 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Grows abundantly on the rich soils of the Western and South-Western parts of Upper Canada, of an average height of 120 feet, 70 feet to the first limbs, and 36 inches in diameter. Sections of the wood, 6 feet in diameter, are not uncommon.T, he wood is compact, strong and tough of a deep violet colour surrounded by a white alburnum. It is used extensively for building, for furniture and in the form of veneers. It can be furnished along the line of the Great Western Railway or ? the Lake ports, for #60 sterling per 1000 cubic feet; freight thence to Quebec about #11 per 1000 cubic feet. Specific gravity 0.5; weight of cubic foot 30 lbs, well seasoned. | ||||