184 THE USES OF PLANTS. 



Trades Journal ' (1888) a valuable series of articles on 

 1 The Trees of Commerce ;' and the present writer, in 

 addition to the mention of the uses of the species 

 grown in England in 'Familiar Trees ' (Cassell and 

 Co., 1885-88), has compiled a list of the chief timbers 

 of the world, arranged geographically, with their 

 scientific and vernacular names, under the title of 

 1 Economic Forestry' ('Transactions of the Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society,' vol. xi., pp. 382-480, 1887). 

 Of these many of the chief have been already men- 

 tioned under the two preceding classes, with the 

 exception of the Conifers. 



Pinus sylvestris, L., under the names of DANTZIC 

 or RIGA FIR, REDWOOD, RED or YELLOW DEAL, is, 

 perhaps, imported in larger quantities than any other 

 wood. That from the White Sea and St. Petersburg, 

 and that shipped from Gefle and Soderhamn in 

 Sweden, is of fine quality ; but the bulk of that 

 imported comes from Dantzic and Riga. The timber 

 of old native Scots Firs in the North of Scotland is 

 beautifully figured, and has been much used for panel- 

 ling at Balmoral. The uses of this wood are infinite 

 masts, deck-planks, and beams in ship-building, 

 railway-sleepers, wood-paving, scaffolding, rafters, and 

 flooring, are among the chief. 



P. resinosa, Aiton, the RED or RESINOUS 'PlNE of 

 commerce, a native of Canada and the United States, 

 is used in our dockyards, but not imported in large 

 quantities. 



P. mitis, Michaux, the AMERICAN SOFT or YELLOW 

 PlNE, or NEW YORK PlNE of commerce, largely used 

 in American dockyards, is also sparingly imported 

 into England. 



