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V. IT has long been known that timber which has been felled, sawn up, and stored in wood-yards, is by no means necessarily beyond danger, but that either in the stacks, or even after it has been employed in building construction, it may suffer degeneration of a rapid character from the disease known generally as “dry-rot.” The object of the present paper is to throw some light on the question of dry-rot, by summarizing the chief results of recent botanical inquiries into the nature and causes of the disease—or, rather, diseases, for it will be shown that there are several kinds of “dry-rot.”
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WARD, H. Timber, and Some of its Diseases . Nature 37, 275–279 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037275e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/037275e0