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this excellent wood. In the East Indies its place is taken by Toon (Cedrela Toona), also 

 known as Indian Mahogany, and in England as Moulmein Cedar, from the place in Burma 

 whence it is exported. Its wood is of the same general character and is used in India for 

 furniture, carvings, tea-boxes, cigar-boxes. • • - *] 



A third species, Cedrela australis, occurs in Australia, in New South Wales, and Queensland. 

 In the former State it is regarded as the most valuable timber tree, and is extensively used for 

 high-class work such as carriage-panelling, etc., being equal to mahogany. ! 



Red Cedar or Pencil Cedar. Everyone is familiar with this wood, owing to its extensive, 

 use in the manufacture of lead pencils. Red Cedar is widely distributed" over the North 

 American continent, reaching its greatest development in the southern states. There are two 

 species : the northern Red Cedar {Juniperus virginiana) -and the Florida Reel Cedar (/. barba- 

 densis) ; the latter restricted to the coasts of the southern states and some of the West Indian 

 islands. 



The red fragrant wood is light and soft, with very fine, even grain, and these. characters 

 render it so suitable for blacklead pencils that it has been calculated that at least 150,000 trees 

 are used annually for this purpose alone. Still larger demands are made on the tree for poles, 

 piles, cross-trees, and other objects in which resistance to weather is important. Other uses 

 include veneering, 

 cigar-boxes, fancy 

 turning, general cab- 

 inet work, etc., and 

 it is scarcely sur- 

 prising that with 

 these many uses the 

 available supply of 

 the tree is rapidly 

 decreasing. 



A syndicate has 

 recently obtained 

 rights to work a very 

 similar wood pro- 

 duced by the allied 

 Juniperus procera, 

 found in the Mau 

 Mountains in British 

 East Africa. 



Another conife- 

 rous tree, Widdring- 

 tonia Whytei, is the 

 principal native tim- 

 ber tree of British 

 Central Africa, and 

 is known as M'lanje 

 Cedar. 



Californi AN 

 Redwood (Seguoia 

 .sempervirens). This 

 red cedar is yielded 

 by a tree which is 

 found nowhere else 



. -i ii i . • From Stereograph Copyright, ' Underwood and Unlerwood, London and New York 



m tne world out in A SAW . MILL AND SLIP) Minneapolis, u.s.a. 



