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all classes of good joinery, and is easily worked into mould- 

 ings and panelling ; it is the chief wood used by pattern- 

 nmkers, as it shrinks but little. It is largely used for decks 

 of passenger steamers owing to the clear white colour. It 

 is lighter than most of the pine timber and readily 

 distinguished in the log by the height it stands out of the 

 water, and for this reason was often used for temporary 

 rafts. 



It is imported in square and roughly-squared logs, and 

 known as Quebec square pine or Quebec wany pine (the 

 latter have a wane on the edges, the former are square), up 

 to 40 ft. long and 16 inches square ; shorter logs may be 

 had over 24 inches square, also in deals and battens 

 classed in three or four qualities in widths of from 7 up to 

 25 or even 30 inches, but the larger widths are always in 

 shorter lengths ; this applies to timber generally. The 

 first quality may be obtained practically free from knots 

 and all defects. Annual rings clearly marked, medullary 

 rays numerous but not very distinct. Weight 28 to 32 Ibs. 

 per cubic foot. A large trade is now done in prepared 

 pine doors, which are exported to Great Britain in large 

 quantities ; these as a rule are of good quality and superior 

 to the doors and other manufactured joinery sent from 

 Norway and Sweden, but this cannot be said of some of 

 the American manufactured work, for, according to the 

 American West Coast Lumberman, a short time ago, as many 

 as " sixty-two knots have been counted on one side of a door 

 made for a subject of King Edward VII." 



There is another white pine, called western white pine 

 (P. monticola), which very closely resembles the above both 

 in appearance and quality of timber, cut in Vancouver and 

 the Selkirk range in Canada and in parts of Montana and 

 Eastern Washington, but a good deal of it is put on 

 the United States market with the western yellow pine 



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