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the world for this wood, particularly for parts of small 

 vehicles, hammer and ax handles, and some kinds of ath- 

 letic goods. The State supplies nearly all home demands 

 for hickory. 



Sweet Magnolia. — The entire quantity of this wood 

 went to a single industry and was made into boxes at 

 an average cost of |22 a thousand. That is a high price 

 for box lumber, but magnolia is an attractive wood, and 

 much of it went into high grade boxes. All was cut in 

 the -State. The heartwood of this tree is a pleasing red 

 or brown, which takes a fine polish. 



White Pine. — Florida has no native white pine, and all 

 that was reported came from the Lake States. It grows 

 in several of the Northern and Northeastern States, as 

 far south as eastern Tennessee. Next to yellow poplar, 

 it was the highest-priced native wood reported in Florida. 

 A number of other woods in this country are called white 

 pine with a modifying term. Western white pine grows 

 in Idaho; California's white pine is the western yellow 

 pine; Mexican white pines comes from Arizona and Mex- 

 ico, and is a white pine. The Norway pine of the Lake 

 States is often mixed with white pine and sold with it. 



Mahogany. — More than ten thousand feet of mahogany 

 ^Yere reported cut in the forests of south Florida last year, 

 and used by industries in the State. Nearly one-t±iird 

 of all of this wood used was home-grown. It has been 

 popularly supposd that mahogany long ago ceased to 

 exist as a commercial wood in Florida, though it was well 

 known that botanical specimens were still obtainable. 

 The present investigation in Florda has shown that such 

 is not the case, and that the wood is still cut and mar- 

 keted there. More than half a century ago mahogany 

 cutters, who were likewise operating in the Bahama Is- 

 lands, invaded the keys south of the Florida mainland, 

 and also the mainland itself, and cut all the mahogany 

 trees within reach of water, and shipped the logs to Eu- 

 rope. Some trees escaped discovery in the dense ham- 



