BASS WOOD. 



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13 ASS WOOD. 



AMERICAN liASSWOOD. OK LINDEN. 



Tifacture. It will hardly do for outside ex- 

 posure to tlie weather ; but it is admirably 

 adapted for packing-boxes, and is used in 

 imnunsc (juantities for the manufacture of 

 furniture, forming the bottoms and sides of 

 drawers, the backs of bureaus, dressing- 

 cases, etc., and it is also employed exten- 

 sively in the manufacture of paper. 



It has often been charged that we are cut- 

 ting off our own noses by using it for one- 

 piece sections — that we are 

 goose that lays the golden egg 

 true that apiarian-supply makers use quite 

 a little ; but still, the amount they use is very 

 insignificant in comparison with that em- 

 ployed by furniture-manufacturers, various 



'killing the 

 ' Well, it is 



