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the manufacture of furniture, and in the domestic arts ; 
but, as a building wood, it can never be in favour, and 
is quite unfit for architectural or engineering works 
requiring strength or durability. 
The Canadian or Quebec Oak is generally quoted 
in the market at about 20 per cent, higher than the 
Baltimore Oak, but probably this is chiefly owing to its 
superior dimensions rather than to any difference in the 
quality. 
America produces, besides the foregoing, the Swamp 
White Oak, Quercus bicolor ; the Rough or Post Oak, 
Q. stellata ; the Rock Chestnut Oak, Q. Montana ; the 
Black Oak, Q. tinctora ; and the Scarlet Oak, Q. coccinea; 
all these are largely used in architectural works, and for 
agricultural implements, both in the United States and 
in Canada. 
THE WALNUT TREE Juglans) 
is found widely spread over Southern Europe, in many 
parts of Asia, and also in North America. 
That which is brought from Italy is a light-brown 
wood, close and fine in the grain, with occasionally dark 
veins, and some waviness of figure ; it is hard, heavy, 
solid, and with scarcely any disposition to split in 
seasoning. Planks 4 to 9 inches thick, square edged, 
10 to 16 inches broad, and 5 to 12 feet in length, are 
imported and sold, sometimes by weight, at other times 
by the superficial foot of 1 inch thick. 
The Black Sea Walnut wood is imported in logs of 
6 to 9 feet in length by 10 to 18 inches square, im¬ 
perfectly hewn, a considerable quantity of wane being 
usually left upon the angles. The wood is similar in 
colour and texture, but slightly inferior in quality, to the 
