The Plant World Volume 13 (Paperback)

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. 1910 Excerpt: ...required to carry on the work. Through this arrangement, the United States has secured perhaps the largest and best equipped wood testing laboratory in the world. The laboratory will be prepared to make tests on the strength and other properties of wood, to investigate the processes of treating timber to prevent destruction by decay and other causes, to study the saving of wood refuse by distillation processes, to examine the fiber of various woods for paper and other purposes, and to determine the influence of the microscopic structure of wood on its characteristics and properties. Facilities are at hand, in fact, for almost any kind of test on wood that practical conditions may require. The circular sent out by the United States Forester, while thus emphasizing the practical importance of the work to be undertaken, makes it apparent that the investigations planned will also be of great scientific value. The University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station has issued a useful bulletin on "Drought-Resistant Plants for the Arid Southwest," by Professor J. J. Thornber. The amount of first hand information contained in this paper, which appears under the modest title of "Timely Hints for Farmers," and its importance for the whole arid and semi-arid region included in its scope is such as to call for more extended notice than can be given it in the present issue of the Plant World. Arrangements will accordingly be made for its reproduction, in whole or in part, in a later number. In nowise inconsistent with the thought expressed in the preceding notices is a timely word from the preface of Dr. Jepson's recently published "Trees of California." The author "cherishes the hope that these pages may be an inspiration to some w...