PINES DOUGLAS FIR SPRUCE 331 



CORSICAN PINE is used for the same purposes, and 

 worth the same price. But Austrian Pine is much 

 inferior in quality and value, and is always coarse 

 and knotty. 



WEYMOUTH PINE: 



Uses. This is the " Yellow Pine " of commerce, and is 

 used for high-class joinery, shelves, door panels, cup- 

 boards, etc., packing cases. 

 Prices. 6d. to 8d. a foot for clean grown trees. 



DOUGLAS FIR: 



Uses. This is the " Oregon " Pine of commerce. The 

 heart wood is very strong and durable, and may be 

 used wherever strength is necessary. In constructive 

 building work joists, rafters, trusses, quarter parti- 

 tions, bridge building, sleepers, pit props, masts and 

 spars of ships. 



The sap wood may be kiln dried, by which means 

 the " figure " of the wood is brought out, and it can be 

 used for all interior house decorative work : e.g., 

 panelling, skirting, window boards, match lining, 

 stair treads and risers, newels, handrails, shelves, etc. 



Prices. There is no home-grown timber on the market 

 at present ; but it is quite reasonable to expect $d. to 

 is. 3d. a cubic foot for closely grown timber, since 

 home-grown timber is of excellent quality in all 

 respects. 



NORWAY SPRUCE : 



Uses. This is the "White Deal" of commerce. The 

 white Christiana flooring boards are cut from this 

 tree. 



It may be used for the same purposes as the 

 imported timber, though it will seldom be of the same 

 quality, except that grown in Scotland Its uses 

 embrace : floor boards, inferior joinery, skirting, 

 mouldings, packing cases, scaffold poles, pit props. 

 It makes excellent pulp wood. 



Prices. 4d. to /d. a cubic foot. 



