198 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



rag-us Dombeyi, Mirbel. 



The Evergreen Beech of Chili, called there the Coigue or Coihue- 

 Of grand dimensions. Canoes can be made out of its stem, large 

 enough to carry 10 tons freight. The wood is still harder than 

 that of Fagus obliqua, with the qualities of which it otherwise 

 agrees [Dr. Philippi]. This species extends to the Chonos-group, 

 and perhaps still further south, and thus may be of value even for 

 Middle European forest-culture. 



Fagrus ferrug-inea, Alton. 



North- American Beech. A large tree, with deciduous foliage,, 

 easily raised in woodlands. Comparatively quick in g-rowth. Will 

 live in calcareous regions, also in rocky and exposed situations, and 

 endures shade [B. E. Furnow]. Wood variable according to locali- 

 ties. Well seasoned wood, according to Simmonds, is remarkably 

 hard and solid, hence employed for plane-stocks, shoe-lasts, tool- 

 handles, various implements and turneries. The yield of its little 

 nuts is large, and on them domestic animals quickly fatten ; they 

 serve also for obtaining oil. 



Fag-us obliqua, Mirbel. 



The Roble of Chili, called Coyam by the original inhabitants, 

 A tall tree with a straight stem, attaining 3 to 4 feet diameter. 

 Wood heavy and durable, well adapted for posts, beams, girders, 

 rafters and joists, but not for flooring. One of the few Chilian 

 trees with deciduous foliage [Dr. Philippi] . Its value as compared 

 with that of the European Beech should be tested in forest- 

 plantations. Cyttaria Berteroi (Berkeley) grows on branches of 

 this Beech. 



Fag-us procera, Poeppig. 



Another deciduous Beech of Chili, where it passes by the name of 

 Reule or Rauli. Of still more colossal size than the Roble. Wood 

 fissile, well adapted for staves ; finer in grain than that of F, 

 obliqua, and much used for furniture [Dr. Philippi]. 



Fag-us silvatica, Linne.* 



The deciduous Beech of Britain, of most other parts of Europe 

 and extra- tropical Asia. The trunk has been measured in height 

 to 118 feet, the foliage to 350 feet in circumference. As far 

 north as lat. 60 C 23' in Norway Professor Schuebeler found a tree 

 over 70 feet high with a stem 12 feet in circumference ; smaller 

 trees grew even to lat. 67 56'. Apt to overpower any other kinds 

 of trees in its native forests. The wood is hard, extensively used 

 by joiners and ship-builders in their trade and by the manufacturer's 

 of various implements, especially for planes, shoe-lasts, keys and 

 cogs of machinery, lathe-chucks, gun-stocks, staves, chairs, spoke- 

 shaves ; in piano -manufacture for bridges, likewise in some portion 



