CONIFEROUS TIMBER. 



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SciBimrio Name. 

 THUIA Loebi 



(GIGANTEA) 

 OCCIDENT ALIS... 



THUIOPSIS 



DOLAEB.ATA 



Popular Xame. 



Lobb's Arbor Vitas., 



The American Arbor 

 Vitas 



The Japanese .Arbor 

 Vitfe 



Country or Region wbere 

 used or exported. 



California & Oregon 



Canada and New 



England States 



Japan 



Remarks. 



Timber called "Cedar" by 

 builders, &c, in Cali- 

 fornia. 



The wood is called " Cedar " 

 in Canada. 



Asu-naro of the Japanese. 

 "Wood yellow and durable. 

 Much used for masts of 

 junks, &c. 



Scotch, Weymouth, and Pitch Pine, and Norway and American 

 Spruce Fir constitute the bulk of the Coniferous timber imported 

 into Great Britain. The same description of timber is also more 

 largely used than any other in the countries and regions in which 

 the trees that produce it, are the preponderating members of the 

 forest. The Corsican Pine, Eed Pine, Larch, Californian Kedwood, 

 Kauri Pine, and Sungi (Cryptomeria) are 'used in enormous 

 quantities in their respective native countries, in consequence of 

 the accessibility of the forests in which they form the predomi- 

 nating element, and the proximity of a dense or rapidly increasing 

 population. The timber yielded by the trees above enumerated, 

 probably exceeds by many times over that obtained from all the 

 other Coniferous trees taken together. 



The consumption of Coniferous timber is proceeding at a rate that 

 would exceed belief, were it not attested by reliable statistics. Our 

 space does not permit us to enter fully into the details that have 

 been published from time to time, but the following instances will 

 suffice to show the importance of the subject. 



"A rough estimate of the value of the Norwegian forests, has put 

 them down at about £22,000,000 ; and, according to the last census, 

 13,638 persons were occupied in the wood cutting and rafting. The 

 exportation of timber from Norway has doubled within the last 

 quarter of a century; the average annual rate of exportation between 

 1870-74 being about 84,510,000 cubic feet, of which Great Britain 

 took about 50,000,000 cubic feet."— (/. of Soc. of Arts, Feb. 6, 1880). 



" Prom the New York census returns for 1865, we learn that the 

 amount of Black Spruce lumber produced in the preceding year was 

 71,000,000 feet. If we suppose 5,000 feet to be the product of an 



