C. H. AMADON, in an article on this subject (Bell Lab. Rec, 20, No. 6, Feb., 1942), refers first to initial experiments made to preserve pine poles by creosoting, and secondly describes the method ...

We always brought the two-metre-tall lodge pole pine that grows in a half-barrel in the yard indoors at Christmas. We’d stand it in the front hall, dress it with lights and put the presents underneath ...