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Basswood was employed in making common chairs, seats, buggy 

 bodies, &c., and was worth $8 to ^12 per thousand. 



Birch was used to some extent in connection with Maple for 

 flooring, also for stair railing, bannisters, &c., and varied from S12 to* 

 $20 per thousand. 



White Cedar sold for fence posts, railway ties, telegraph poles^ 

 canoes, &c., at from SI 6 to $20 per thousand feet. 



Elm was employed in the making of heavy sleighs and cutter work 

 and was worth about $12 per thousand. 



Hemlock was made into scantling, railway ties and rough boards,, 

 and brought about $6 per thousand. 



Maple was manufactured into axletrees, flooring, implements, &c.,. 

 and sold for $16 per thousand. 



Larch was used for poles,- ladders, and sometimes for flooring, and 

 was worth $12 per thousand. 



White Oak was employed in making heavy wagons, &c., and 

 brought from $20 to $25 per thousand. 



Eed Oak brought only $15 per thousand when of the best quality; 

 such was sometimes used in cabinet work. 



Black Walnut was not indigenous about Lindsay, and probably on 

 that account commanded a liigh price, running from $100 to $120 per 

 thousand. 



The meeting thanked Mr. Beall for the very valuable information 

 he had given, and the remainder of the evening was spent in conver- 

 sation upon the uses to which our various woods were put, and th& 

 constantly increasing cost of many of them, owing to the diminishing 

 of the supply and the increasing demands of an increasing population^ 



MORNING SESSION. — July 7th. 



At the opening of this session the Secretary read a letter he had 

 recently received from one of our most prominent pomologists, Mr. 

 James Dougall, Windsor, accompanied with a photograph of a new 

 weeping cherry that had originated on Mr. Dougall's grounds, and a 

 branch laden with fruit taken from one of his new seedling cherries, 

 named by him the Windsor. In this letter Mr. Dougall states thati 

 the Windsor is a very prolific and valuable market fruit, the specimen 

 branch sent being from a young tree that is bearing for the second 



