Show IS YOUR DESK MAHOGANY More Than Fifty Different Woods Are Put on the Market and Sold Under Th That Name Nam The name mahogany Is applied commercially to more than fifty different different differ differ- ent woods Perhaps half the lumber now sold under that name Is not true mahogany for the demand greatly exceeds exceeds ex ex- ex the supply The tree is only native to the limited area between southern Florida and northern South America Nowhere else does it really flourish But the l public bUc will hn have e mahogany Women want It for or business men prefer preter It for office fixtures and teak and mahogany I any are rivals rl In the affections of or ship ship- builders Therefore substitutes flour flour- sh ish It Is not surprising that the real wood is s so expensive when It Is learn learned d that It takes from to IGO years for fora a mahogany tree to reach merchantable merchantable merchant merchant- able size Most of the substitutes bear little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than a n general resemblance to the genuine wood but skillful finishing makes them very much alike Experts can usually distinguish between them themy hy by y the aid of an ordinary pocket lens The efforts of the superficial however I Ito to o Judge the wood by Its appearance weight grain and color often lead them I astray Popular Popular Science Monthly I |