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ed, is made smooth in the usual way, and varnished. The 
scorching produces a great variety of dark shades and 
specks on the surface; these have generally been consid- 
ered to possess considerable beauty, and the wood, so pre- 
pared, has come into pretty extensive use in the making of 
particular sorts of cabinet furniture. When birds-eye ma- 
ple is thus prepared, except the varnishing, if it is then 
stained with the walnut dye, it receives much additional 
eauty. In the common mode of pereene | that wood, the 
colors are black, of various shades and degrees of intense- 
ness; and that kind of white, though scaricarkipt tarnished, 
which is natural to maple. These colors are destitute of 
any other lustre than what the varnish merely gives them. 
But the application of the walnut dye gives a lustre even to 
the darkest shades; while to the paler and fainter ones it 
gives, in addition to this, a somewhat greenish hue; and to 
the whiter parts, various tints of yellow. The whole, to~ 
gether, has a very pleasing effect on the eye, and is very 
ornamental when used, with taste and judgment, in hime: 
ar parts of some kinds of furniture. For panned work, 
the yellow stain A without the previous ian has 
a very delicate and pleasing appearance. Both modes of 
staining give the wood very much the appearance of figm 
satin; and, for patticular purposes, are altogether superior, 
in their effect, to mahoga any. Such, at eA rate, is my own 
opinion; and such, too, is that of a ) have received 
Specimens of work done in this man 
cal cet 3 eee wood, eabinetnakers on erally em 
and greatly detracts from the beauty of i it. .When this spe- 
cies of sued is stained with the walnut liquor, and reddened 
somewhat sesh a peas of some. ere ie Fe whose: color is. 
pecans spt oe 
Walnut harks makes the x most as arn Jee for lying 3 
cloth, of any of the y 
