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IN the notice of “A Manual of the Timbers of the World” in NATURE of September 16, 1920, the reviewer's final paragraph reads as follows:—“Endless embarrassment to the landowning class resulted during the war from the confusion between the names ‘silver spruce’ and ‘silver fir’”.
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BAKER, R. Scientific Names for Commercial Timbers. Nature 107, 45 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107045b0
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