262 WOODS OF COMMERCE. 



coast. Known also as "Peach" or "California Chestnut Oak." 

 Height 6070 ft.; diam. 23 ft. Heavy, hard, strong. 

 Classed as an inferior White Oak; but valued chiefly for its 

 bark. 



Oak, Water (Q. aqudtica Walt.). Central, southern and 

 south-eastern States. Known also as "Duck, Possum" or 

 "Punk Oak." Height 7080 ft. diam. 34 ft.; heavy, hard, 

 strong. Sapwood whitish ; heart ill-defined, light brown ; rings 

 of moderate width, wavy; pores in 1 2 rows, graduating into 

 those of the autumn wood ; pith-rays numerous and prominent, 

 but not very wide. Used in cooperage, but chiefly as fuel. The 

 name is also applied to Q. palustris. [See Oak, Pin.] 



Oak, White (Q. dlba L.). South-eastern Canada, Eastern 

 United States. Height 70130 ft.; diam. 68 ft. S.G. 

 1054695. W 46-35. e' 1-19 1-58. / 1 -9. c 70213832. 

 c' -927 -506. v -912 -771. E 905 kilos. Sapwood whitish ; 

 heart defined, reddish brown ; heavy, hard, tough, straight- 

 grained, strong, durable in contact with soil ; rings narrow, 

 slightly wavy; pores in spring wood in 1 2 rows, those in 

 summer wood very fine ; pith-rays numerous and prominent ; 

 wide radial groups of dense woody-fibre extending across the 

 summer wood crossed by several concentric lines of fine pores. 

 One of the most generally useful of American hard-woods, being 

 so elastic that " planks cut from it may, when steamed, be bent 

 into almost any form," shrinking and splitting very little in 

 seasoning, but liable to some twisting, free from knots, and 

 shipped in logs from 25 50 ft. long and 11 28 inches square, 

 or in thick-stuff or planks. Largely used in shipbuilding, house- 

 frames, interior finish, door-sills, staves for wine-casks, railway 

 and other carriage-building, agricultural implements, fence-posts, 

 sleepers, piles, furniture and fuel. Though beautifully marked 

 when quarter-sawn, it is inferior to the best European Oak. 

 "Quebec Oak" is the trade name of an excellent quality and 

 " Baltimore Oak " that of a somewhat inferior one, both named 

 from their port of shipment, and realizing from Is. 4d. to 2s. per 

 cubic foot in London. The name "White Oak" is applied in 



