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all classes of good joinery, and is easily worked into mould- 
ings and panelling ; it is the chief wood used by pattern- 
makers, as it shrinks but little. It is largely used for decks 
of passenger steamers owing to the clear white colour. It 
is lighter than most of the pine timber and readily 
distinguished in the log by the height it stands out of the 
water, and for this reason was often used for temporary 
rafts. 
It is imported in square and roughly-squared logs, and 
known as Quebec square pine or Quebec wany pine (the 
latter have a wane on the edges, the former are square), up 
to 40 ft. long and 16 inches square ; shorter logs may be 
had over 24 inches square, also in deals and battens 
classed in three or four qualities in widths of from 7 up to 
25 or even 30 inches, but the larger widths are always in 
shorter lengths; this applies to timber generally. The 
first quality may be obtained practically free from knots 
and all defects. Annual rings clearly marked, medullary 
rays numerous but not very distinct. Weight 28 to 32 lbs. 
per cubic foot. A large trade is now done in prepared 
pine doors, which are exported to Great Britain in large 
quantities ; these as a rule are of good quahty and superior 
to the doors and other manufactured joinery sent from 
Norway and Sweden, but this cannot be said of some of 
the American manufactured work, for, according to the 
American West Coast Lumherman, a short time ago, as many 
as " sixty-two knots have been counted on one side of a door 
made for a subject of King Edward VII." 
There is another white pine, called western white pine 
(P. monticola), which very closely resembles the above both 
in. appearance and quality of timber, cut in Vancouver and 
the Selkirk range in Canada and in parts of Montana and 
Eastern Washington, but a good deal of it is put on 
the United States market with the western yellow pine 
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