buy Pregabalin uk next day delivery Speaking of “you are what you stack,” I was doing my usual winter work of splitting wood and I couldn’t help but admire this stick of cherry birch, Betula lenta. This birch was known as “mahogany birch” for its beauty as a furniture wood, which you can see in this picture (look at the lovely red-toned heartwood). It takes a stain very nicely too, and was used widely as a veneer wood. The maroon inner bark, clearly visible in this picture, doesn’t show up in furniture much but it sure is pretty to look at, on a winter’s day. The wood is even more desirable for furniture because it is rotten firewood, exceptionally stringy and difficult to split and not much of a burner either. It doesn’t show up in my stove much – this piece came from a neighbor.
Cherry Birch.
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This entry (permalink) was posted on Monday, December 29, 2014, at 5:54 pm by jbkuhner. Filed in Life in the Catskills, winter and tagged betula lenta, cherry birch.
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