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The African mahogany trade was started as lately as 1886. Already 
it has assumed such proportions (12,00 tons annually) that it has 
seriously affected the important emet Jaen industries of British 
Honduras and other — African timber is even finding its way 
into the New World. The f osi pt on this qe t has appeared 
in Garden and Forest for January 30, 1895, p. 
a PP Southern Lumberman says that fis piby "gs from the west 
= Africa have got as far as Louisville, Sica -= "o = it 
seized upon the territory. The 
with the somewhat reddish colour of the American variety, and some of 
ood 
as the true mahogany, and is end related toit. 
a cabinet-wood as t ica ban m ibis but is more like 
the Central dieit wood. Occasionally there are logs richly 
iecur st these baro been manufactured here into very attractive 
