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well adapted for making packing cases, railway brakes, 

 weather boarding, and for purposes where lightness is of 

 greater importance than durability. The Abele, or white 

 Poplar, produces perhaps the most valuable timber of any 

 of the numerous species. 



Scotch Spruce and Silver Fir may all be classed under 

 the same heading, being of about equal value and applicable 

 to similar purposes, viz., for sleepers and pit wood, board- 

 ing under slates, headings for barrels, soap boxes, tem- 

 porary fencing, also for conversion into planking for 

 lead works, and for all erections of a temporary kind. 



Sycamore timber is peculiarly white and smooth and 

 free from grain, which makes it very valuable. It is used 

 for curtain rings, churns, butter prints, for the backs of 

 violins, for founders' patterns and cutting boards, and in 

 the making of wooden vessels and furniture. For calendar 

 machines and in cotton and jute factories it is much em- 

 ployed. 



Walnut timber is much in demand for gun and rifle 

 stocks, for the best class of furniture, and for veneering 

 purposes. 



Willow is famous for the production of the best class of 

 cricket bats and for artificial limbs and crutches. It also 

 makes good charcoal. 



Yew wood is valuable when employed for veneering. 



