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attractive colour and grain also give it high value. The wood has a natural 

 lustre which darkens with age to a deep wine-colour. 



Mahogany wood was used by ten industries. Car construction used over 

 81 per cent of the total. The average price paid was $172.23 per thousand feet 

 board measure, which price was exceeded by only two woods. A good deal of 

 mahogany is used in the form of veneer of one twenty-fourth to one twenty- 

 eighth of an inch in thickness. 



Mahogany forms 1 per cent of the total wood used by the different 

 industries. 



SPECIES NOT SO LARGELY USED. 



Chestnut. Chestnut (Castanea dentata) does not grow commercially in the 

 province of Quebec. It is found only in the most southwestern part of the 

 province, in very small quantities and much scattered. 



Chestnut wood is reported as used by five industries to the extent of 776,000 

 feet board measure, or 0-1 per cent of the total M r ood consumption. 



Chestnut wood has an attractive grain, but it is very soft, light, and weak. 

 It resembles ash in texture. The chestnut tree is subject to the attack of an 

 insect known as the chestnut borer (Lymexylon sericeum), and a good deal, 

 known to be wormy, is used as core for veneer. Otherwise it is sound and very 

 durable. Chestnut wood has a fine appearance which makes it a favourite wood 

 for interior finishing and decorative work. 



Chestnut material costs, on an average, $66.71 per thousand feet board 

 measure. Sash, door and building material manufacturers are reported to have 

 paid the highest price, $68.88, and toys and sporting goods the lowest, $35. 



Walnut. Walnut (Juglans nigra) is very scarce in the province of Quebec. 

 It is not indigenous to the province but was introduced into a few localities 

 from Ontario and the northern United States. 



Walnut is the most expensive native wood reported and the second in 

 price of all the list. The bulk of the supply of walnut material is imported 

 from the United States. 



Seven industries report using black walnut to the extent of 652,000 feet 

 board measure. 



In such manufactures as furniture and musical instruments most of the 

 walnut is used as veneer. 



Cedar; Cedar is Canada's most durable soft wood, and because of this 

 it is used to a very large extent for shingles, posts, poles, railway ties, etc. The 

 wood-using industries of Quebec have reported a consumption of only 533,000 

 feet board measure of cedar, although the output of logs of this species in the 

 province was reported to be nearly 63,000,000 feet, of which four iiiid one-half 

 million feet board measure were cut into lumber in the province. Four indus- 

 tries report using cedar material, the greatest demand being for sash, doors and 

 building material which consumed over 88 per cent of the total given. The 

 boat industries used 62 per cent of the remainder. 



The cedar wood used is of two species: eastern white cedar (Thuja occi- 

 dentalis), and western cedar (Thuja plicata) of British Columbia and the Western 

 States. 



