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near Worcester has been constructed with this timber, 
chiefly as an experiment. Suitable for " lamiders " or shoots, 
it must, liowever, be cut at the right time, when the fruit 
is ripe. 
Weight from 29 to 37 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Olivewood {Olearerriicosa) is largely used up country for 
posts, wagon-building, and other purposes. 
Weight 68 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Stinkwood(Oeo^ca hullata) , sometimes called Cape mahogany 
or Cape walnut, is another important South African tree, 
growing from Cape Colony to Zululand. It is an ever- 
green, 60 to 90 ft. high and 3 to 5 ft. diameter, and a fairly 
quick-growing tree. The wood is of a dark brown colour 
resembling dark walnut, heavy, hard and strong, fairly 
elastic, tough and durable in contact with ground. It makes 
handsome furniture, but is chiefly used for planks, beams, 
doors and windows, railway sleepers, and for all kinds of 
wagon -building except the spokes. 
Weight 53 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Eed Els or Elder {Cunonia caycnsis) somewhat resembles 
red birch, and is used for posts, palings, wagons, and 
ordinary carpentry, and is excellent for turning. White 
Els (Platylophus trifoliatns) is used for palings, posts, and 
general farm work. 
Weight of Red Els about 46 lbs. and White Els 38 lbs. 
per cubic foot. 
Cape Ash or Essenhout (Eckehergia capends), a tough and 
useful timber, not unlike elm and close grained, is used for 
common floors, sides of wagons, and occasionally for 
furniture. It grows in Cape Colony and Natal and can be 
got in logs up to 18 inches square. 
Weight 48 lbs. per cubic foot. 
