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Hickory {Cayia alba). — Highly esteemed in carriage-making, 

 and for handles of implements. 



AilantJms (ilandulosa. — Kecommended for carriage-making, on 

 account of its strength, elasticity and non-liabilit}' to ^Yarp. 



West Indian cedar {Cedrcla odorata). — Best wood for cigar- 

 boxes, and in the construction of river-, pleasure- and racing- 

 boats. 



Box (Biixas sempervirens). — Used for wood-engraving, 

 spindles, turnery, flutes and other musical instruments, 

 measures, shuttles, &c. The wasteful exploitation of box- 

 forests around the Black Sea and in Persia is causing this 

 valuable wood to become rare. [There is, however, a consider- 

 able area of box-forests in the Indian Himalayas. — Te.] Dog- 

 wood and black-thorn have been tried as substitutes for box- 

 wood. 



Ebony {D'wspijros Eboium, I). Mehinoxylon and other species). 

 — Turnery and wood-carving, pianoforte keys, knife-handles, &c. 

 [Stained holly used to imitate ebony. — Te.] 



Lignum-vitae {Guaiacum ojficinale). — Bowls, sheaves for pul- 

 leys; used in gunpowder-manufacture as grinding-rollers. 



Jacaranda {Jacaraiida hrasiUensis). — Turnery, inlaid furni- 

 ture, &c. 



Rosewood (wood of .several species).* — Furniture, pianoforte- 

 making, &c. 



Granadilla (undetermined wood from Honduras). — Used 

 similarly to rosewood, and for flutes. 



Horseflesh-wood (CUesaljjinia sj).from Bahamas). — Yiolin-bows, 

 machinery. 



Greenheart {Xcctaudria Ilod'uei, lauraceous tree from South 

 America and West Indies). — Ship-building. 



Violet-wood (undetermined West Indian tree). — Inlaid furni- 

 ture, &x. 



Satinwood [wood of different species of trees, among others 

 Chloroxi/Ion Swietcnia, from Ceylon. — Te.] Used for furniture 

 and the backs of brushes. 



Olive-wood {Olca eurojjcea). — Wood-carving, <tc. 



Quebrache-wood {Aspidospeiiiia Quebracho, from Argentina). 

 — A good substitute for boxwood, for wood-engraving. 



* Vide Laslett, ojj. cil. p. 284. 



