Pear-tree is a brown wood, much used by the Tunbridge turner. In many of its properties it is similar to lime-tree, but harder and tougher. It is largely employed for carved works, and the engraved blocks for calico-printing.

Sycamore is another of the light-coloured woods. When young, it is of a delicate silky white, which changes into a pale brown as the timber becomes old. The wood is strongest when the colour is in the intermediate stage.

Some pieces are beautifully mottled, and are esteemed by the cabinet-maker in the construction of fancy furniture. The plain kinds are made into many articles of domestic utility, such as presses, dairy utensils, etc. It is also a particularly good material of which to make screws.

Tabular View Of Some Of The Woods In Common Use

House Carpentry.

Deal

Oak.

Pine.

Sweet Chestnut.

Joinery and Cabinet Work.

Beech.

Birch.

Cedar.

Pine.

Strong Framing, etc.

Oak.

Ash.

Beech.

Birch.

Mahogany.

Furniture.

Mahogany.

Rosewood.

Satinwood.

Sandalwood.

Walnut.

Maple.

Black Ebony.

Amboyna.

Wet Works, as Piles, Foundations, etc.

Elm.

Oak.

Beech.

Alder.

Foundry Patterns.

Alder.

Deal.

Mahogany.

Pine.

For Turnery (common).

Alder.

Aps.

Beech

Small.

Birch J

Oak.

Elm.

Pine.

Sycamore

White Woods.

Holly

Horse Chestnut

Pear-tree

Brown Woods.

Apple-tree

Plum-tree

Ornamental Turning.

Aniboyna.

Beefwood.

Black Ebony.

Boxwood.

Bulletwood.

Cocoawood.

Coromandel.

Lignum Vitae.

Mahogany.

Maple.

Mustaiba.

Rosewood. -

A comprehensive catalogue of the "Characters and uses of the Woods" will be found in the first volume of Holtzapffel's "Mechanical Manipulation."