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Show Stinkwood Tree Source of Much-Prized Lumber In a forest of South Africa there grows a tree with a hard fine wood but a very ugly name. Stinkwood It was called by the early Dutch settlers, who made wagons from it, and later found that a stinkwood log was so hard that It would burn for three days. Now we make furniture of it. Unfortunately the number of these trees will not last for many more years, for every time a stinkwood stink-wood tree is cut down two or three hundred years must pass before another an-other can take its place. It seems, too, that there is no stinkwood in any other part of the world, though the tree is thought not to have belonged originally to South Africa, as the natives have no name for It. In cases of this sort it is usually found that the tree has been brought from some other country, but if this Is so the place from which the stinkwood really came Is still a mystery. |