THE EXHIBITION AT PARIS. 101 



that she can supply the need of timber for her navy out of her own 

 possessions. 



The exhibition of woods from Great Britain was very interesting, as 

 it contained, besides the indigenous woods (Oak, Beech, Birch, and 

 Scottish Fir), the introduced and naturalized trees, such as the Pine 

 (no. 1683, from Germany), the Larch (1629, from the Alps), the Cedar 

 (1683, from the East), and the Red Oak (1691, from America). At 

 present [some of — Ed.] these trees are quite naturalized, and form the 

 finest forests, especially in the Scottish mountains. The Deodar Cedar 

 from the Himalaya, the Douglas Fir from the rocky mountains of nor- 

 thern America, and the Wellingtonia from California, are new introduc- 

 tions, and entitle us to the fairest hopes. 



Prance had exhibited but few specimens of wood. Trunks fit for 

 timber grow every day more rare ; and all the cultivation of forests there 

 extends no further than the production of fuel, for which purpose the 

 plantations are periodically cut down. In Paris no log wood is to be 

 seen, only sticks. In northern France there are yet some old forests, 

 in Calvados fine Elms, in the departments of Dordogne and Garonne, 

 and in the Landes, some Oak-forests, which however do not yield very 

 large trunks, but are yet used for ship-building, and they are cut down 

 rashly, without regard to after-growth. 



The French colonies had exhibited very nice specimens of wood ; 

 but they were not arranged, and were without any details concerning 

 the statistics of the forests. The most remarkable of the collections 

 of the French colonies was that of Algiers, in particular as regards 

 woods and products of the forest, and showed in this respect the 

 abundance of this colony. France has in Algiers 1,800,000 jock* of 

 forests, which yield the best timber and ornamental woods. There are 

 in these forests not only Oak and Sweet Pine-tree (Pinie), especially 

 the splendid Atlas Cedar, which furnish the best wood for ship-building, 

 but also Olive-trees, Cypresses, and different kinds of Tkuja, which are 

 extremely useful for the purpose of fancy furniture, and are already 

 much employed in Paris. A table of five feet diameter was made of 

 the cross-cut of an Atlas Cedar of 400 years of age. 



Sweden and Norway had exhibited very handsome planks of Conifers 

 from " Sapin du Nord ;" besides a collection of cross-cuts of different 

 timber, that deserves to be called splendid, as regards their regularity 



* t».p «**„* n ( for«f.s in Algeria is estimated st 2,272,567 acres.— En. 



