214 The yotirnal of Forestry. 



In the front portico is a pretty substantial table ; the legs are sections of 

 sycamore, black ash, alder, and pear trees, each two and a half feet diameter, 

 and support as a top a single planlc of Douglas pine from Vancouver 

 Island, fourteen feet long, eight and a half feet wiae, and "nine inches 

 thick, which was cut from a tree 608 years old, 289 feet high, and 

 measuring twelve feet in 'diameter at the ground. As a centre-piece on 

 this table there is blocked up on edge a section of an im;nense log, with 

 this inscription :— Canada white pine, ^<o\ ye:u-s old, 303 feet high, section 

 of four feet, diameter eight feet five inches, weight 7,500 lbs. This is from 

 a log forty feet long, cut at Ottawa, Ontario, Think of a growth of plants 

 thickly set like these pine forests, whose trunks weigh nearly a ton to the 

 lineal foot ! 



It is impracticable to describe in full the numerous kinds of wood, and 

 the sizes and shapes of the great variety of forms in the lumber shown, or 

 to give any adequate idea of the pleasing effect of their artistic combina- 

 tion. Among the notable pieces are these, — ash columns, turned and 

 polished, fourteen feet high, three feet diameter at the base, and twenty 

 nches at top of shaft, these inside the porticoes sujiporting the covering 

 and standing upon sections of spruce logs four feet in diameter. Numerous 

 oiled and polished planks ten to twelve feet long, all at least four feet wide, 

 of white cedar, pine, sycamore, cherry, black walnut, " white soft walnut," 

 and "red walnut," — these walnuts very beautiful woods. Among the 

 rarer kinds of merchantable lumber, in large sizes, basswood, " arbutus," 

 whitewood, alder, dogwood, pear, red cedar, and balm of Gilead {PoimJvs 

 candicans). And the great variety of forms include, besides all sorts of 

 building lumber, ship knees, spars, masts, wheelwrights' and coopers' stuff', 

 and "bandbox wood," cut sixteen to the inch in thickness. 



The lighter materials, clap-boards, laths, and shingles, are used for 

 balustrades, pendants, and other finishings, with good eflFect, and to relieve 

 the otherwise rather monotonous lumber-yard colour, lime washes, red, 

 white, and blue, are applied in good taste ; this being at the same time a 

 delicate and neighbourly Canadian compliment to " Uncle Sam." 



Outside the structure, apparently as rejected materials, stand the ruins of 

 several monarchs of the forest, among them birch and elm legs over five 

 feet through. And near by is erected a slender, graceful flagstaff of New 

 Brunswick pine, 100 feet in height. 



In the trimmings only are nails to be seen, everywhere else the needed 

 strength and firmness is given by the ingenious arrangement of the 

 materials ; this fact is worthy of repetition, that this really ornamental and 

 substantial edifice is actually but a fine collection of the assorted wares of 

 Canadian lumbermen. 



A large part of the materials used came from the Ottawa Valley, 

 collected by the Quebec Advisory Board, but private dealers in different 

 parts of Ontario contributed generously. New Brunswick is well repre- 

 sented, and some of the finest specimens are from British Columbia. I am 

 sorry to be unable to give full credit, by name, to the designer or architect, 

 indeed, his work was that of a true artist. 



