494, OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
green, more than eighty pounds, and, when per- 
fectly dry, nearly sixty-nine pounds. The yellow 
colour of Boxwood is familiar to most people, 
and its uses for the manufacture of toys and 
ornamental articles are almost innumerable. In 
every sense, however, its most valuable use is for 
wood engravings, for which it is the best of all 
woods. This volume is largely indebted, for in- 
stance, to Boxwood for its illustrations. How 
much, indeed, in the past, mankind has owed to 
the admirable adaptation of the Box-Tree to the 
art of the wood-engraver is beyond computation ; 
for the moral, social, and intellectual influence of 
this beautiful art upon the nation—nay, upon the 
world at large—has been, and continues to be, 
incalculable. 
