believe that it was sunlight that set the varnish. Therefore, any finish formulated to re-create the old ... root extract an orange resin; zinc sulfate and madder root extract a red resin varnish. By simple ... agents and dyestuffs. Clay, wood ashes, madder root and metallic salts of various kinds were well known ...

sweaty, blown, at the graves. At the tree, the white pine, its harp-shaped body dark in thin sunlight. The ... Page 225 from Issue 90 TRIQUARTERLY Sap Beth Simon Good Friday, the conifers are rich in resin ... home, make myself clean. I snag the old man's raveling cardigan off the back-porch nail, wrap ...

to estimate. He estimated, and went on in that direction. When he saw a forked pine it was far off to ... to the aspens and on to the forked pine on the far side of the meadow, along what he remembered as ... almost a straight line. He pointed himself toward the far edge, where the pine should have been. He could ...

reconnaissance, there is no evidence of it now. Elegant eastern white pines punctuate an evergreen forest that ... stretches as far as we can see in both directions, the tips of their dark branches curve upward, defying ... Page 171 from Issue 133 nor Lewis Cass to explore the Old Northwest, paddled birch bark canoes ...