The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties / First Edition

by Charles H. Snow

Modulus of Elasticity.

820,000.

Modulus of Rupture.

6800.

Remarks.

A locally important tree. Trees sometimes stunted by fires have numerous roots. Large roots used for fuel. [p080]

FOOTNOTE

Holsinger, "Forestry and Irrigation." Vol. VIII, No. 11, p. 447.

WHITEWOOD OR TULIP-TREE WOOD (Liriodendron.), POPLAR OR COTTONWOOD (Populus.), CUCUMBER-TREE WOOD (Magnolia.), BASSWOOD (Tilia.).

These trees are not related, but are all noted for woods with soft, fine qualities, such as fit them for carvings, woodenware, and paper-pulp. No one of the woods is durable when exposed, and all are used for boxes because they nail without splitting. The names are commercially interchangeable.