22.Cross sections of a ring-porous hardwood (white ash), a diffuse-porous hardwood (red gum), and a non-porous or coniferous wood (eastern hemlock).

The occurrence of this defect is mostly limited to the dense hardwoods, such as hickory and to heavy tropical species.

Divinities bide here, Fair Ceres, Cupid, Bacchus, those gods of all good cheer, Priapus tooquite harmless, though terrible to see Our little hardwood warden with scythe of trusty tree.

Their vast stretches of white pine and native hardwoods were cut to a skeleton of their original size.