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SOME OF THE WOODS USED IN
UMBRELLA HANDLES
Hickory
Any of four species of North American tree of the genus Carya in the
Walnut family Juglandacea.
The trees vary in size from 60 to 120 feet in height. The trunks are straight and cylindrical and the
lower halves devoid of branches.
The fruit is a
thin shelled nut enclosed in a large husk which splits into four segments
when ripe.
The timber is hard, tough and shock resistant and in these respects superior to Ash. The sapwood
is
known as White Hickory and the red brown heartwood as Red Hickory.
The four species
are:
1
Pignut or Broom Hickory - Clabra
2
Mockernut Hickory - Tomentosa Synalba
3
Shellbark or Kingnut Hickory - Lacinosa
4
Shagbark Hickory - Ovata. This produces the chief Hickory nut.
The species was introduced into Britain in 1629. Closely related members
of the same species are:
(a)
sweet Pecan - Illinoensis
(b)
bitter Pecan - Aquatica
Tulip Wood
Large deciduous North American tree - Lirodendrum Tulipifera,
American Whitewood, Canary
Whitewood or White Poplar. The cheaper woods are used extensively for plywood and the more
expensive for
cabinet making. Used quite a lot by 18th century furniture makers for edgings.
Acacia Wood
A genus of shrubs and trees of the order Leguminosae. Sub
family Mimosideae. In India and North
Africa exudes a gum marketed as gum arabic.
Rosewood
A valuable and heavy wood from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and
India.
Malacca
Stem of a Palm tree that grows in
Sumatra and named after the British settlement in that area.
Genus Calamcis Scipionum.
Whanghee
Phyllostachys. A genus of forty species of grasses once
mistakenly classified as a bamboo
(Bambusa). Hardy evergreen plant
from Japan, China and the Himalayas.
Partridge Wood
Species of Palm. See above.
Furze
Ulex. Also called Whin and Gorse.
Lancewood
Duguetia Culra Oxandra Virgata. From Jamaica.
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