. A manual of the timbers of the world : their characteristics and uses : to which is appended an account by S. Fitzgerald of the artificial seasoning of timber. Timber. 40 THE TIMBERS OF THE WORLD It furnishes a black paint and railway sleepers owing to its durability, its sap is ; Baterden speaks of it as being " a tawny or grey wood, exceedingly strong, nearly three times as strong transversel}-' as pitch pine, good for uprights and wall-plates of framed houses, stands wet and dry weather, and is much used for timbering in mines. It can be had in logs 60 to 70 feet long
. A manual of the timbers of the world : their characteristics and uses : to which is appended an account by S. Fitzgerald of the artificial seasoning of timber. Timber. 40 THE TIMBERS OF THE WORLD It furnishes a black paint and railway sleepers owing to its durability, its sap is ; Baterden speaks of it as being " a tawny or grey wood, exceedingly strong, nearly three times as strong transversel}-' as pitch pine, good for uprights and wall-plates of framed houses, stands wet and dry weather, and is much used for timbering in mines. It can be had in logs 60 to 70 feet long and up to 40 inches square. A first-class sleeper ; Brazil-wood. Cacsalpinia echinata, Lam. The West Indies. Wdiile the true brazil-wood is, correctly, of the above-named species,. Some of the Government E more than one botanical species has been supphed and some confusion has resulted accordingly, Holtzapffel gives brazil-wood as above, sappan wood as C. sappan, and brazillctto as C. braziUensis. Messrs. J. Gardner & Sons, who probably ha\'e the best available information at present, say that brazil, brazillctto, and Pernambuco wood ha\-c always been regarded as the same. The wood of these varieties is of a rich, bright-red colour, and is mosth' used as a dye-wood, while the best pieces are selected for turning and for viohn bows. For this last purpose, although many different kindsof timber have been tried, there is nothing that will yield the same result as the Pernambuco or brazil-wood, and many players will use no other kind on account of the peculiar strong, resihent spring only to be found in this. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Howard, Alexander Liddon, 1863-1946; Fitzgerald, S. London : Macmillan
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