House and Garden 
the dead personage) and a number of 
interesting horse trappings, including a 
saddle-bow encrusted with gold. The 
Japanese civilization of this early period, 
judging from these objects was clearly of 
a high order, closely paralleling for ex- 
F ample, that of contemporary Western 
I Europe.— Bulletin of the Metropolitan 
\ Museum of Art. 
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I HARD WOOD FLOORS 
^ I ^HE selection of flooring requires 
\ intimate knowledge of the fibres, 
' grains and colors of the various woods; 
: even the different characteristics as¬ 
sumed at the various times and condi¬ 
tions of growths: the colors, as new 
lumber, sun and kiln dried, and in wear¬ 
ing old age; the usage to which it is to be 
put must be a prime factor; its price and 
the ease of obtaining it must not be 
ignored. 
About a dozen families of trees give 
nearly all the flooring. The two hard 
pines {Pinus rigtda and Pinus resinosa) 
known in lumber-yards as Georgia, 
Carolina, or Southern are more trod 
upon in America than any other wood. 
From them come the oil of turpentine 
and resin of commerce, by “boxing” 
the trees, blazing with a cup-shaped 
hollow at the bottom of the blaze in 
which the crude resin accumulates. 
From this the oil is distilled and the resi¬ 
due refined into the clear amber resin. 
Contrary to general belief, boxing adds 
to rather than detracts from the value 
of the wood. By extracting the sap 
year after year the growth is retarded, 
and the grain made more compact, finer 
and harder. 
Boards for flooring should be selected 
entirely from the heart of old trees. 
Georgia pine is of a light straw-color 
and takes on an excellent polish, is hard, 
but elastic, and makes a good floor for 
dancing; its unfortunate feature is its 
proneness to sliver; this can be obviated 
by the way in which it is sawed. 
White-wood or bass {Tilla glabra of 
Europe and Tilia Americana of this 
country) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior of 
Europe and Fraxinus Americana) cost 
about the same, but neither is worth 
considering. The wood is soft, is not 
pretty, slivers readily, and does not keep 
its shape under atmospheric changes. 
Oak {Ouercus alba. 0 . rubra and 0 . 
vivens) of either one of the three men¬ 
tioned varieties makes an excellent floor. 
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