130 SWIETENIA MAHOGONI. 
2. Vein* Mahogany. Acajou veine, French. The wood of this variety is 
veined longitudinally with the grain, displaying alternately dark and light 
streaks, continuous, interrupted, or re-appearing. 
3. Watered Mahogany. Acajou moire, French. This variety is known by 
the transverse waves which exhibit to the eye an effect similar to those of a 
watered riband. 
4. Velvet-cord or Caterpillar Mahogany. Acajou chenille, French. This 
variety is distinguished by its whitish lines, accompanied by a figured shade of 
fragments of roseate sprigs, here and there disposed diagonally, longitudinally, 
interrupted, or crossing one another. 
5. Bird's-eye Mahogany. Acajou mouchete, French. This variety is be- 
sprinkled with little oval knots, which, when duly proportioned, render the 
wood half light and half dark. 
6. Festooned Mahogany. Acajou ronceux, French. This variety offers in its 
colour a mixture of light and shade usually resembling sheaves of wheat, feath- 
ers, wreathes, festoons, or figures of shrubs. 
As the wood of mahogany is generally hard and takes a fine polish, it is found 
to serve better than that of any other tree for cabinet-making, for which pur- 
pose it is universally admired. It is very strong, and answers well for beams, 
joists, planks, boards, and shingles, for which it was formerly much used in 
Jamaica. Its adaptation to ship-building we have already mentioned in the 
history of this tree. 
