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West Virginia spruce {Picea nihens, Sarg.). 



Port Orford cedar [Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana, Murr.). 



New Zealand kauri {Agathis [Dammar a] Australis, Salisb.). 



Canadian white pine [Pinus Strobus, Linn.). 



Oregon pine {Pseudotsuga Douglasii, Carr.). 



Since the war, however, the Association has, by a concensus of 

 opinion decided that in future no substitutes shall be allowed, and silver 

 spruce {Picea sitchensis) only is to be employed. 



Stephegyne parvifoUa, Korth. Weight, 45 lbs. India, Burma, Ceylon. 



Gamble reports this wood as being a Mght pinkish-brown, hard and 

 even-grained, and very similar to Adina cordifolia. In India it is used for 

 building and furniture, but it has not yet been seen in European commerce. 



Stereospermum chelonoides, DC. Weight, 40-59 lbs, India. 



This is a hard wood of a grey colour, though it has been described as 

 an orange yellow. It is moderately durable, elastic, and easy to work, 

 and is suitable for furniture. 



" Pores moderately sized and large, joined by narrow, irregular, wavy, 

 interrupted belts and Hnes of soft tissue. Pores frequently filled with a 

 white substance of a resinous nature, which is prominent on a vertical 

 section. Medullary rays short, wavy, moderately broad, numerous, pro- 

 minent on a radial section as long, narrow, horizontal bands " (Gamble). 



Stereospermum xylocarptim. Weight, 36-47 lbs. (Gamble). India. 



The colour of this wood is nut-brown with a glint of orange in it. 

 The grain is close and firm. It would be suitable for decorative and 

 cabinet work. Gamble says : " The wood is good and handsome ; it is 

 tough and elastic and takes a good poUsh .. . , and deserves to be better 

 known, and to be in more general use." 



The pores are regular and numerous. The medullary rays are very 

 fine, regular, parallel, and equidistant. 



Stringy-bark. Eucalyptus ohliqua, L'Herit. Weight, 63 lbs. Tas- 

 mania. 



This timber is of a hght brown colour, much resembling Enghsh oak. 

 It is strong, and capable of a good surface from the tool, and is used in 

 constructional work of all kinds. It has been employed in England for 

 a close park fence, with post and rails, and has stood the weather for 

 twenty-one years (1919) above ground certainly as well as, and perhaps 

 better than, Enghsh oak. Its condition is as good and sound as when 

 first erected, and the wood is much harder. The posts in the ground, 

 however, as well as a portion of the gravel board, have all become rotten. 

 It does not seem, therefore, to be very durable under ground. Great 



