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The World's Commercial Products 



By permission of the West Australian Agency 



CRIB TIME IN THE BUSH 



and Stockholm, and are very suitable for internal work. Inferior qualities are known as 

 spruce deals. 



White Pine. The White Pine (Pinus strobus) has been for many years the most important 

 timber tree of Northern America. It is well known in Great Britain, where it is frequently 

 grown under the name of Weymouth Pine. 



The White Pine occurs throughout a broad belt stretching across North America in the 

 latitude of the Great Lakes. The destruction has naturally been very great in a tree which 

 has been employed for endless 'purposes for the past, two centuries, and careful attention to the 

 maintenance of the supply for future generations is absolutely imperative. 



White Pine may be taken as a typical example of the " soft pines," and as it is very easily 

 worked, has a fine, even grainf and takes a good surface, it is very extensively used as a general 

 timber for internal carpentering and joinery work, for ship masts, and for pattern-making. 



Pitch 'Pine, Long Leaf Pine (U.S.A.). In the markets of Europe, the West Indies, and 

 other parts of the world to which this timber is exported, " pitch pine " is the generally recog- 

 nised name, but in the United States, its native country, another tree altogether, Pinus rigida, 

 is* known as Pitch Pine, whilst "Long* Ljeaf Pine" is a commonly accepted name for 

 P. -palustris. 



Pitch Pine is particularly adapted to heavy. construction work,. e.g., for bridges, building 

 supports, railroad cars, railway sleepers, etc., etc. It is, however, apt to become " granular " 

 under continuous cross strain. The annual output is enormous, for not only is the timber very 

 largely used in the United States, but it is exported in constantly increasing amounts to Europe, 



