vi PREFACE 



The botanical names for some timbers are variously 

 given by different authorities I have taken them from 

 what I considered the most accurate sources, and have 

 always given the spelling as it is given in official or 

 Government records when these are obtainable. There are 

 few subjects about which there is more difference of 

 opinion than about timber, for one seldom finds that two 

 people describe even the colour of two pieces of timber in 

 the same terms. I have given no information of which I 

 am not either certain from my own knowledge, or which I 

 have not gained from authentic sources. Whilst this wor]% % 

 cannot within its scope be exhaustive, I trust that I have 

 treated all the important matters connected with the 

 subject adequately, and that it may serve a useful purpose. 

 The writing of it has been a great pleasure to me. 



J. E. BATEEDEN. 



NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. 



1908. 



