THE USES OF BRITISH TIMBER 233 



Willow. Framework for veneered furniture, packing-cases, 

 hurdles, bottoms and sides of carts, bread platters, knife-boards, 

 cricket- bats, basket-work, clothes-pegs, withies. 



Service Tree, Apple, Pear, and Cherry. Cabinet- making, 

 turnery, carving, printers' tools, veneers. 



CONIFERS 



Austrian and Corsican Pine. Used for the same purposes 

 as Scotch pine, but the wood of both is coarser and less 

 durable. 



Douglas Fir. Used for the same purposes as larch, but the 

 timber is not of the same quality. 



Larch. Telegraph and telephone posts, railway-sleepers, 

 bridges, boats, cart-making, masts, fencing, pit-wood. Larch 

 of all sizes is useful, and is one of the most durable of British 

 timbers. It is much used for all estate work. 



Scotch Pine or 'Red Deal'. Used for similar purposes as 

 larch, but it is not so durable: .it is also used for scaffolding, 

 and house-building. 



Spruce or * White Deal\ House-building, for rafters and 

 boarding, furniture, masts, telegraph posts, scaffolding and 

 ladders, packing-cases, boxes, toys, cask-staves, musical in- 

 struments, pit-wood, wood pulp, fencing. 



Silver Fir or ' White Pine '. Used for similar purposes as 

 spruce. 



Wey mouth Pine or ' Yellow Pine\ House-building, especially 

 in roofs, packing-cases, cabinet-making. It is very light in 

 weight. 



Yew. Bows, cabinet-making, wood-carving, turnery. 



