USES OF PRINCIPAL WOODS.
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SPECIES. | WHERE GROWN. | USES. |
Balata | French Guiana | A substitute for hard woods in architectural works, furniture, &c. |
Beech | Britain | Cabinet and chair making, piles, wedges, turnery. |
Beefwood, or She Oak | Australia | Furniture, domestic arts. |
Blackwood | Australia„ | Wheelwrights’ and turners’ work. |
Blue Gum | Australia„ | Architectural works, piles, fences, general purposes. |
Boco | French Guiana | Constructive purposes, furniture, turnery. |
Boxwood | Australia | Sheaves for pulleys, mallets, turnery, &c. |
Camara | Brazil | Boat-building. |
Camphor, or Ivapor | Borneo | Planks, beams, piles, constructive purposes generally. |
Canella-preta | Brazil | Constructive purposes generally. |
Carapo | Trinidad | A substitute for plain and inferior Mahogany. |
Cedar, Cuba, Mexican & Honduras | Cabinet work generally, cigar boxes, patterns, &c. | |
Cedar, Bermudian. | Cabinent work generally,„ boat-building, &c. | |
Cedar„ Florida | Cabinent work generally,„ boat-building, &c.„ | |
Cedar„ Pencil | Cabinent work generally,„ pencil making. | |
Celery-topped Pine | V. Diemen’s Land | See Pine. |
Chestnut | Britain | Carpenters’, wheelwrights’, and coachmakers’ work, domestic arts, &c. |
Chow | Borneo | Planks, beams, piles, constructive purposes generally. |
Ébène | French Guiana | Furniture, domestic arts, turnery. |
Ébène„ rouge | French Guiana„ | Furniture,„ domestic arts, turnery.„ |
Ébène„ verte | French Guiana„ | Furniture,„ domestic arts, turnery.„ |
Elm, Common | Britain | Ships’ keels, bilge planks, wheel-wrights’ and carpenters’ work, carving and turnery. |
Elm,„ Wych | Britain„ | Do., specially adapted for boat-building. |
Elm,„ Dutch | Britain„ | Do., specially adapted for boat-building.„ |
Elm,„ Canada Rock | Canada | Ship-building, coach and wheel-wrights’ work, domestic arts, &c. |
Emu | Australia | Turners’ work. |
Fir, Dantzic | Prussia | Constructive purposes generally, deck deals, masts, &c. |
Eliasberg | North Europe | Constructive purposes generally„ cabinet work. |
Saldowitz | North Europe„ | Constructive purposes generally„ cabinet work.„ |