Best woods for Tunbridge ware.—Holly, horse chestnut, sycamore (white woods); apple-tree, pear-tree, plum-tree (brown woods).
Hardest English woods.—Beech (large), box, elm, oak, walnut.
For Furniture.
Common furniture and inside works.—Beech, birch, cedars, cherry-tree, deal, pines.
Best furniture.—Amboyna, black ebony, cherry-tree, Coromandel, mahogany, maple, oak (various kinds), rose-wood, satin-wood, sandal-wood, sweet chestnut, sweet cedar, tulip-wood, walnut, zebra-wood.
Foreign hard woods, several of which are only used for ornamental turnery.—
| 1. | Amboyna. | 13. | Greenheart. | 25. | Peruvian. |
| 2. | Beef-wood. | 14. | Grenadillo. | 26. | Princes-wood. |
| 3. | Black Bot. B. wood. | 15. | Iron-wood. | 27. | Purple-wood. |
| 4. | Black ebony. | 16. | King-wood. | 28. | Red sanders. |
| 5. | Box-wood. | 17. | Lignum vitæ. | 29. | Rosetta. |
| 6. | Brazil-wood. | 18. | Locust. | 30. | Rose-wood. |
| 7. | Braziletto. | 19. | Mahogany. | 31. | Sandal-wood. |
| 8. | Bullet-wood. | 20. | Maple. | 32. | Satin-wood. |
| 9. | Cam-wood. | 21. | Mustaiba. | 33. | Snake-wood. |
| 10. | Cocoa-wood. | 22. | Olive-tree & root. | 34. | Tulip-wood. |
| 11. | Coromandel. | 23. | Palmyra. | 35. | Yacca-wood. |
| 12. | Green ebony. | 24. | Partridge-wood. | 36. | Zebra-wood. |
Nos. 3, 8, 16, 33, and 34 are frequently scarce.
Nos. 3, 5, 8, 9, 10 are generally close, hard, even tinted, and the more proper for eccentric turning, but others may also be employed.
Nos. 4, 5, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 30, 32 are generally abundant and extensively used. All the woods may be used for plain turning.