Representative Uses of Wood.
Lumber, interior finish, shingles, boat-building, pumps, woodenware, shelves, the bottoms of drawers.
Weight of Seasoned Wood in Pounds per Cubic Foot.
26.
Modulus of Elasticity.
1,300,000.
Modulus of Rupture.
9300.
Remarks.
Very large trees formerly common. Indians hollowed logs into boats. "Some large enough to carry twenty or thirty persons" (Hough), whence name canoewood. Tulipifera, signifying turbans and to bear, refers to flowers. One of the largest as well as most useful of American deciduous trees. [p083]