. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . eaves twenty incheslong, and sixteen broad, and bears a hard nut. Thecountry ships in India, as well as many very fineones that trade between India and this country, arebuilt of it. A specimen was introduced into theRoyal Gardens at Kew, about sixty years ago; butfrom the warmth of the climate of which it is anative, it can never become a forest-tree in thiscountry. 2a VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. Besides its value as timber, the teak has greatbeauty as a tree. It is found more than two hundredfeet high,
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . eaves twenty incheslong, and sixteen broad, and bears a hard nut. Thecountry ships in India, as well as many very fineones that trade between India and this country, arebuilt of it. A specimen was introduced into theRoyal Gardens at Kew, about sixty years ago; butfrom the warmth of the climate of which it is anative, it can never become a forest-tree in thiscountry. 2a VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. Besides its value as timber, the teak has greatbeauty as a tree. It is found more than two hundredfeet high, and the stem, the branches, and the leavesare all ver) imposing. On the banks of the riverIrrawaddy, in the Birman empire, the teak forestsare unrivalled; and they rise so far over the jungleor brushwood, by which tropical forests are usuallyrendered impenetrable, that they seem almost as ifone forest were raised on gigantic poles over the topof another. The teak has not the broad strength ofthe oak, the cedar, and some other trees ; but there isa grace in its form which they do not Teak—Tectona grandis. Chapter II. THE PINE. AxTnouGH, in all or most of its species, not next tothe oak in the strenu;tii or thedurubility of its timber,the Pine, perhaps, claims the second place amongvaluable trees. It is very abundant, its growth iscomparatively rapid, and its wood is straight, elastic,and easily worked. Accordingly, as oak is thechief timber in building ships for the sea, pine isthe principal one in the construction of houses uponland. It is the Builders timber: and as, when thecarpenter wants a post or a beam of peculiar strengthand durability, he has recourse to the oak ; so wlienthe shipwright wishes to have a piece of timber thatshall combine lightness with great length, as for aspar or mast, he makes use of the pine. The distinct species of pines enumerated by thebotanists are about twenty-one. None of these bearflat leaves, but a sort of spines, which, however,a
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