158 WOODS OP COMMERCE 



furniture, door-panels and carving, and yielding beautiful veneers. 

 The best of the woods known as Chittagong woods. 



Cedar, New Zealand [Libocedrus BidwUUi Hook. fil. or L, Doniana 

 EndL: Order Gupressinece), Maori " Pahautea," " Kawaka." 

 Height 60—100 ft. ; diam. 3—5 ft. W 28. Soft, close-grained 

 reddish woods, resembling the Incense Cedar of the Western 

 United States. Suitable for planks and spars. 



Cedar, Oregon {Cupressus Lawsonidna MMTT.^Chamcec^paris 

 Lawsonidna Sargent: Order Cupressinece), ''Port Orford Cedar, 

 Lawson's Cypress, Ginger Pine." South Oregon and North Cah- 

 fornia. Height up to 200 ft. ; diam. up to 12 ft., but generally 

 120—150 ft. high. S.G. 460. Light yellowish-brown, hght, but 

 heavier than other "white Cedars," hard, strong, very close- 

 grained, abounding in fragrant resin, easily worked, susceptible of 

 a beautiful poHsh, very durable in contact with the soil. One 

 of the most valuable timber-trees of North America, largely 

 cut for lumber and used for ship and boat building, fencing, 

 flooring. 



Cedar, Pencil, a name appHed in EngHsh commerce to Juniperus 

 virginidna [See Cedar, Red], but in Northern New South Wales 

 and Queensland to (i) Dysoxylon Fraseridnum and (ii) D. MuBleriy 

 PhjUdnthus Ferdindndi [See Beech, White], and (iii) Podocdrpus 

 eldta, and to LucuTna galacioxylon [See Miva] ; in India to Juni- 

 perus macropoda [See Jumper, Indian], and (iv) in Cape Colony to 

 the Coniferous Widdringtonia juniperoides. (i) Dysoxylon Fraseri- 

 dnum Eenth. (Order Melidcece), known also as " Austrahan 

 Mahogany," " Rosewood " or " Bog-onion," 50 — 70 ft. in height 

 and 3 — 4 ft. in diameter, yields a reddish, prettily-figured, fragrant, 

 easily-worked wood, valued for furniture, turning, engraving 

 and ship-building, being, in fact, a substitute for Mahogany, 

 (ii) D. Muelleri Benth., known as " Red Bean " and, from the smell 

 of the wood when freshly cut, as " Turnip-wood," the " Kidgi- 

 kidgi " of the aborigines, a taUer tree, yields a rich red wood, 

 equally valuable, and sometimes figured, (iii) Fodocdrpus eldta 

 R. Br. (Order Taxdoem), known also as " Pine, White,'^ " Brown 

 Pine " or " She Pine," or " Native Deal," is a fine tree, 50 — 130 ft. 

 high and 2 — 5 ft. in diam. W 45*7. Though seldom cylindrical, 

 it is free from knots, sometimes beautifully figured, soft, fine, close 

 and silky in grain, easily worked, durable, termite- and teredo-proof, 

 and valued for joinery and cabinet-work, (iv) Widdringtonia 

 juniperoides^ growing above the winter range of snow on the Geder- 

 berg in the Clanwilliam district of Cape Colony, sometimes reaches 

 12 ft. in diam. It is known as " Ceder Boom " to the Dutch, and 

 the demand for it exceeds the supply. The allied If. Whitei 

 Rendle, of elevated kloofs in the Shir6 Highlands, Nyassaland, is 



