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Title: Tasmanian forestry : timber products and sawmilling industry, a description of timber trees indigenous to Tasmania, their commercial value and process of manufacture, with methods adopted by the government to foster the industry
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Penny, John Compton
Subjects: Forests and forestry Timber
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmania : John Vail, Government Printer
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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railway-carriages, kc. The well-known billiard-tablemakers, of Melbourne, Messrs. Alcock & Sons, have for manyyears used Blackwood largely in the manufacture of billiard-tables.Messrs. Collard & Collard also u.se this very valuable timber forpianos. BEECH OR MYRTLE (Fagus cunningharni).The Beech, or, as locally called. Myrtle, is fairly well distributedthroughout Tasmania, and plentiful in the western and north-western districts, where it attains dimensions exceeding those ofthe Blackwood. It is of two kinds. One resembles in characterthe hardest and heaviest English Beech, and has been favourablyreported upon by Messrs. Eansome. of Chelsea, both for strengthand the high finish it takes; is of a dark pink colour whenfreshly cut, quickly fading to a lighter shade with brownish tint;and is a timber that stands traffic well, acquiring a smooth surface,which does not shred or tear away. The other variety is whiteand soft, splits excellently, and burns well, even when quite green.
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.lANiAN Blackwood. St.Melbourne. Pauls Cathedral, Tlio iiccniiiiiniiyinK llluatraOon in niiicliwootability of this woodto the Bncr tuclinical work of tliu tnn? artist. Hoth Ulackwood aiiil Hiion Pine will bofoiuKl Uj leiitl llimiiBOlvos very readily to work such as tho carTiiiK shown in the illuBtra-tlan.-OEoii(iK 8. Pkiuiin. F.L.8.. l-Mi.O.S.. K.K.H.8. (London).—-li(» ««■OiVj- 14 Value and Utility. The value of the Beech is not sufficiently appreciated in Tas-mania, and little is exported, probably owing to the difficulty inconveying the timber to a loading port in the districts where itgrows in abundance. For flooring it is exceedingly durable, andgives a beautiful surface, also for furniture and decorative workits value is fully recognised by many. The Tasmanian Myrtle tree (Fagus cunninghami), says the Tim-ber Trades Journal, has found a market in this country for fret-saw work on account of its density and superior carving qualities.Up to the prese

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