. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. s that adopted in Holland on timber furnishedin great part from Champagne (, simply, the superiority of Dutch wainscot), andin ail cases of split oak for lathing and for park paling. ( Viollet-le-Duc). 2I25e- The wood principally used for joinery is of tinee sorts, pine, and white andyellow deal ; the two first for panelling, and the last for framing. Of late years muchAmerican wood has been used, both for panels and frames. It works easily, i
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. s that adopted in Holland on timber furnishedin great part from Champagne (, simply, the superiority of Dutch wainscot), andin ail cases of split oak for lathing and for park paling. ( Viollet-le-Duc). 2I25e- The wood principally used for joinery is of tinee sorts, pine, and white andyellow deal ; the two first for panelling, and the last for framing. Of late years muchAmerican wood has been used, both for panels and frames. It works easily, is soft, freefrom knots, but more liable to warp than white deal. But joinery is not of course limitedto the use of a particular sort of wood. Wiien the exporter cuts a log, the first thing done isto get one good deal or more for the London market; the residue is then converted tosupply other maikets. Many deals 3 inches thick are sent to France, perhaps as large apro{)ortion as those of 2 inch and 1;| inch, but they are not of so good a description asthose sent to Loudon, France is the great mart for all deals that will not suit tlic London. Chap. III. JOINERY. 655
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