The Journal of the Board of Arts and Manufactures for Upper Canada, April 1867
Newest among what Mr. Tennyson calls the "fairy gifts of science," we notice an invention of Mr. Hyett to make trees imbibe colour while growing. The results were exhibited lately at the conversazione of the Cirencester Royal Agricultural College, in the form of beautiful sections and planchettes of wood, stained with various hues. Metallic salts are introduced in the substance of the growing tree, apparently caried up by the sap, and forced into the fibre and cells of the stem. So we can make our forests play the part of their own stainers and grainers, and cut down a pine already prepared to imitate expensive walnut or exotic mahogany. There is only one thing left to desire - that, after being thus stained, the wood could be induced to grow into the forms of tables, chairs and wardrobes. Nor shall we despair of such a result, since the Americans have long talked of a machine into which you put raw cotton at one end, and by-and-by there emerges at the other a calico shirt, hemmed, starched, ironed, with the buttons all on, and neatly marked.
- London Telegraph
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