FURNITURE AND VENEER WOODS. 101 



Moreton Bay Pine (Araucaria Cunninghdmi), and 



Pencil Cedar (Podocdrpus data). 

 In Tasmania : 



Honeysuckle (Bdnksia margindta) and 



Huon Pine (Dacrydium Franklinii). 

 In New Zealand : 



Honeysuckle or Rewa-rewa (Knightia excelsa), 



Kauri Pine (Agathis austrdlis), 



Rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), 



Miro (Podocdrpus ferruginea), and 



Totara (P. tdtara). 

 And in Tropical America : 



Mahogany or Bay wood (Swietenia Malwgani), 



Sabicu (LysiUma Sabicu), 



Santa Maria, or Galba (Calophyllum Cdlaba), 



Green Ebony (Bnja Ebenus), 



Zebra Wood (Cdnnarus guianensis, etc.), 



Sapodilla (Achras Sap6ta), and 



Braziletto (Ccesalpinia brasUidnsis, etc.). 



Veneers. Very choice ornamental woods are employed 

 mainly as veneers. Such are, in addition to many of those just 

 enumerated : Amboyna wood, the product, it is believed, of some 

 species of Pterocdrpus ; the burrs of Yew, largely used for tea- 

 caddies, etc., in the 18th century; those of Walnut; and the 

 beautiful Lacewood or Honeysuckle wood of North America 

 (Pldtanus occvlentdlis). 



Turnery. The turner requires a tough wood, which will 

 often be also hard and susceptible of good polish. No wood is 

 more generally useful to him than the Ash, as it does not splinter. 

 Curiously enough, cankered Ash-wood, popularly known as " bee- 

 sucken Ash," being apparently twisted in its grain, is extremely 

 hard and tough, and, therefore, suitable for mallets. Beech is 

 used for wedges, planes, and tool-handles ; Hornbeam for the 

 bearers of the cylinders of printing-machines; Pear for T-squares; 

 and Elm, and in former times Maple, for bowls; whilst the record 

 of the demand for Walnut for the manufacture of gunstocks reads 



