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wood." W 49. Yellow, moderately heavy and hard, very fine 

 and close-grained. Used as Lancewood. 



Daminiya [Qrewia UUcefoUa Vahl : Order Tilidcece). Ceylon and 

 Southern India. Dark, Walnut-like, elastic, strong and tough. 

 Used for masts, oars, and shafts. 



Date, Kafir, or Plum {Harpephyllum Caff rum Bernh.). Gape 

 Colony. W 45*7. / 5*86. fc 2*94. Dull red mahogany-Hke, 

 easily worked, and suitable for carpentry and cabinet-work. 



Deal, a term properly describing soft (coniferous) wood sawn 

 in thicknesses of 2 — 4 in., but often used with prefixes as to colour 

 or country of origin. Thus Dantzic, Red or Yellow Deals are 

 derived from the Northern Pine {Pinus sylvestris L.) [See Pine, 

 Northern], White Deals from the Spruce {Picea excelsa), Canadian 

 and New Brunswick Spruce Deals, mostly from Picea nigra, narrow- 

 ringed trees yielding the "Black," wide-ringed ones the '* White 

 Spruce " of Canadian lumbermen. 



Very large quantities of White Deals are now reacliing England 

 from Galatz, of greater average length and coarser grain than 

 Baltic White Deal, and competing with Canadian Spruce. 



Deodar. See Cedar, Deodar. 



Del {Artocdrpus nohilis Thw. = -4. puhescens Moon. : Order 

 Urticdcece). Ceylon. Sinh. "Aludel." W 39*5 — 50. Large, 

 greenish-brown, moderately heavy and hard, cross-grained. Used 

 for canoes and furniture. 



Dhaura {Anogeissus latifoUa Wall. : Order Oombrefdcece). India. 

 Height up to 200 ft. ; diam. 3 ft. or more. Sapwood wide, gre3^ 

 or yellowish ; heart purplish, hard, very strong and tough, but 

 sphtting in seasoning and only durable when kept dry. Used for 

 axles, axe-handles, agricultural implements, furniture, etc, 



Dilo. See Poon. 



Dogo. See Mangrove. 



Dogwood, in England (i) (Oornus sanguinea L. : Order Gorndcece), 

 Europe and Northern and Western Asia. Known also as " Cornel,'' 

 ^' Prickwood," A mere shrub. Hard, horny, fiesh- coloured, with 

 minute evenly distributed vessels 1 — 4 together, without pith- flecks 

 and with indistinguishable pith-rays. Used formerly for skewers 

 and arrows, and to some extent for gunpowder charcoal, (ii) BMm- 

 nus Frdngula L. : Order Ehamndcece), Europe, North Africa, and 

 Siberia. Known also as " Berry-bearing Alder," and to gunpowder- 

 makers as " Black Dogwood." A shrub 5 — 10 ft. liigh. Sapwood 

 narrow, light yellow ; heart brilliant yellowish-red ; vessels minute, 

 not in flamboyant groups as in the allied Buckthorn (E. cathdrticm) ; 

 soft. Largely used in the manufacture of sporting gunpowder 

 charcoal. 



