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Fine Furniture Woods from Memphis 



The Memphis district furnishes a considerable number of woods 

 for furniture, but only three or four are of real importance. How- 

 ever, these few fill a prominent place in the Country's furniture 

 industry. The oaks perhaps hold first place. Oak lumber comes 

 from half a dozen species, some being white oaks, others red oaks. 

 The common white oaks, which reaches its best development fur- 

 ther north and east, extends its range over much of the Memphis 

 district. Much of this oak is cut, holds its own wherever it goes. 

 The forked-leaf white oak, often known as overcup oak, is more 

 abundant and is marketed in large amounts and has an excellent 

 reputation among furniture makers w^herever it is known. Other 

 white oaks of more or less importance in the region are post, bur, 

 and cow oaks. 



Three or four red oaks hold prominent places in trade, but the 

 most abundant is the southern or Texan red oak, known fre- 

 quently as spotted oak, because the bark is spotted. Other red 

 oaks are known as water oak and willow oak. 



Red gum clearly holds second place after oak as furniture wood 

 in the Memphis region. Its rise in favor has been rapid and dates 

 from the time when successful methods of seasoning it were 

 worked out. Statistics of its use in furniture factories a few years 

 ago would fall short of its present use. This wfood when sent to 

 Europe is known as satin walnut and hazel pine, the latter being 

 the sapw^ood, the former the heartwood. it is the most popular 

 and successful substitute for Circassian walnut virhich has become 

 so scarce that it has nearly gone out of use and gum has taken its 

 place. 



Tupelo or cotton gum, often called bay poplar or simply bay, 

 closely resembles yellow poplar and is frequently substituted for it. 



Furniture factories that use ash and cottonwood procure much 

 of their supply in the Memphis district. 



Fine black walnut comes from that region, largely from the dis- 

 trict west of the Mississippi, in Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma; 

 but much fine walnut is procured in Tennessee and Kentucky. 



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