CHAPTER III 



EUROPEAN TIMBER 



Chief Timbers imported into Great Britain Forests of Eussia, Norway, 

 Sweden, and Germany White Sea Trade Baltic Eedwood 

 Baltic Whitewood Fir. Larch English Oak Dantzic and 

 Adriatic Oak Common Yew Hornbeam Sycamore Plane 

 Spanish Chestnut Horse Chestnut Alder Willows Lime 

 Apple Pear Cherry Plum Common Cypress Laburnum 

 Box Ash Birch Acacia Beech Poplar English Elm 

 Laurel Holly Bruyere Hazel Hawthorn Walnut. 



MUCH the larger proportion of the timber imported into 

 Great Britain comes from Russia, Norway, Sweden, and 

 Germany, from the Baltic and Finnish Gulf ports and the 

 White Sea, and forms the bulk of the timber used in the 

 building trade. 



Although there are something like 42,000,000 acres of 

 forest in Sweden, chiefly pine and spruce, suitable timber 

 of sizes for conversion into deals and planks has shown 

 signs that the supply is suffering depletion, and Norway, 

 with its 16,000,000 acres of forest, of which 73 per cent, 

 consists of pine and spruce, or fir, only supplies a compara- 

 tively small quantity of deals, the bulk coming in as planed 

 wood. Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Germany supply Great 

 Britain with about 65 per cent, of her total imports of 

 timber, and although Norway and Sweden for long held the 

 lead, Russia now stands first both as to quantity and value. 

 Enormous strides have been made within the last few years 

 in developing the large forest resources of the provinces 



