CHAPTER III 
EUROPEAN TIMBER 
Chief Timbers imported into Great Britain — Forests of Eussia, Norway, 
Sweden, and Germany — ^White Sea Trade— Baltic Eedwood — 
Baltic Whitewood— Fir, Larch — English Oak — Dantzic and 
Adriatic Oak — Common Yew — Hornbeam — Sycamore — Plane — 
Spanish Chestnut — Horse Chestnut — Alder- Willows— Lime — 
Apple - Pear— Cherry— Plum — Common Cypress — Laburnum — 
Box — Ash — Birch — Acacia — Beech — Poplar — English Elm — 
Laurel — Holly — Bruyere — Hazel— Hawthorn — Walnut. 
Much the larger proportion of the timber imported into 
Great Britain comes from Russia, Norway, Sweden, and 
Germany, from the Baltic and Finnish Gulf ports and the 
White Sea, and forms the bulk of the timber used in the 
building trade. 
Although there are something like 42,000,000 acres of 
forest in Sweden, chiefly pine and spruce, suitable timber 
of sizes for conversion into deals and planks has shown 
signs that the supply is suffering depletion, and Norway, 
with its 16,000,000 acres of forest, of which 73 per cent, 
consists of pine and spruce, or fir, only supplies a compara- 
tively small quantity of deals, the bulk coming in as planed 
wood. Russia, Norway, Sweden, and Germany supply Great 
Britain with about 65 per cent, of her total imports of 
timber, and although Norway and Sweden for long held the 
lead, Russia now stands first both as to quantity and value. 
Enormous strides have been made within the last few years 
in developing the large forest resources of the provinces 
