Show IS YOUR DESK M MAHOGANY More Than Fifty Different Woods Wood Ar Ara Ar Put on the Market and Sold Under That Name The name mahogany Is applied commercially to more than fifty different differ different ent woods Perhaps half the lumber now DOW s sold ld under that name Is not true mahogany for tor the demand greatly a exceeds exceeds ex ex- the supply The tree Is only native to the limited area between southern Florida and northern South America Nowhere else does dots it really flourish But the pt public will have mahogany Women want It for tor furniture business men prefer It for tor office fixtures and teak and mahogany mahogany any are rivals In the affections of ship ship- builders Therefore substitutes flour our our- ish ab I It Is h not surprising that the real rest I wood Is 1 so 0 expensive when It Is learned that It takes from tram to years Sears for tor fora tora a mahogany tree to reach rench merchantable merchant merchant- merchantable able sl size sine e j Most of or the substitutes bear benr little littlemore I I more than a general gent res resemblance to Ithe the genuine wood but skillful finishing makes them very much alike Experts Expert can usually distinguish between them by the alit aid of on nn ordinary pocket lens lens- 1 The efforts of ot the superficial however to jud judge e the wood b by Its appearance appearance- I weight grain and ond color often otten lead th themi them m mi i J Science Monthly |