490 AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



All poplar lumber is not wide, clear stock, though much of it is. 

 The lower grades go as common lumber and small trees are cut for pulp- 

 wood. A large part of the demand for high-grade yellow poplar is in 

 foreign countries, and a regular oversea trade is carried on by exporters. 

 Foreign manufacturers put the wood to practically the same uses as the 

 best grades in this country. 



Yellow poplar seasons well, and is a satisfactory wood to handle. 

 When thoroughly dry it holds its shape with the best of woods. Bluing 

 is apt to affect the green wood if unduly exposed. Fresh poplar chips 

 in damp situations sometimes change to a conspicuous blue color within 

 a day or two. However, millmen do not experience much difficulty in 

 preventing the bluing of the lumber. 



GYMINDA (Gyminda grisebachii) is also called false boxwood, and 

 belongs to the staff family. The name gyminda is artificial and meaning- 

 less. The genus has a single species which occurs in the islands of 

 southern Florida where trees of largest size are scarcely twenty-five feet 

 high and six inches in diameter. The wood is very heavy, hard, fine- 

 grained, and is nearly black. It is suitable for small articles, but it is 

 not known to be so used, and its scarcity renders improbable any im- 

 portant future use of the wood. The fruit is a small berry, ripening in 

 November. The range of the species extends to Cuba, Porto Rico, and 

 other islands of the West Indies. 



