COMPARATIVE VALUE OF TIMBER 



was well-nigh ousted from the market. Take 

 beech timber, and it has been proved over and 

 over again that that of home growth, which 

 is hard and firm, especially when produced on 

 chalky formations like the Chiltern Hills, is 

 in every way preferable to the softer-grown 

 Continental wood. The war has brought 

 home to us how useful beech timber is and for 

 what a large and varied number of uses the 

 best class is suited. Repeated trials with 

 foreign beech timber have quite convinced the 

 trade that it cannot compete with the best of 

 home growth. 



Cricket-bats made from English-grown 

 willow have no equals, and are sent from this 

 country to every part of the world. Chestnut 

 timber is well known for its lasting properties, 

 and in many of our old buildings has been in 

 position for centuries and is yet perfectly 

 sound. Users of walunt for specially impor- 

 tant purposes tell me that the best-grown 

 home wood can rival any sent from the Con- 

 tinent, and has recently been used in prefer- 

 ence, and advertisements in our timber trade 



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