no TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES. [CHAP. 



the manufacture of furniture, and in the domestic arts ; 

 but, as a building wood, it can never be in favour, and 

 is quite unfit for architectural or engineering works 

 requiring strength or durability. 



The Canadian or Quebec Oak is generally quoted 

 in the market at about 20 per cent, higher than the 

 Baltimore Oak, but probably this is chiefly owing to its 

 superior dimensions rather than to any difference in the 

 quality. 



America produces, besides the foregoing, the Swamp 

 White Oak, Quercus bicolor \ the Rough or Post Oak, 

 Q. stellata ; the Rock Chestnut Oak, Q. montana ; the 

 Black Oak, Q. tinctora ; and the Scarlet Oak, Q. coccinea\ 

 all these are largely used in architectural works, and for 

 agricultural implements, both in the United States and 

 in Canada. 



THE WALNUT TREE (Juglans) 



is found widely spread over Southern Europe, in many 

 parts of Asia, and also in North America. 



That which is brought from Italy is a light-brown 

 wood, close and fine in the grain, with occasionally dark 

 veins, and some waviness of figure ; it is hard, heavy, 

 solid, and with scarcely any disposition to split in 

 seasoning. Planks 4 to 9 inches thick, square edged, 

 10 to 1 6 inches broad, and 5 to 12 feet in length, are 

 imported and sold, sometimes by weight, at other times 

 by the superficial foot of I inch thick. 



The Black Sea Walnut wood is imported in logs of 

 6 to 9 feet in length by 10 to 18 inches square, im- 

 perfectly hewn, a considerable quantity of wane being 

 usually left upon the angles. The wood is similar in 

 colour and texture, but slightly inferior in quality, to the 



