Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1917 — Many Woods Sold as Mahogany. [ARTICLE]

Many Woods Sold as Mahogany.

Many woods from the various tropical regions of the world are sold as mahogany, but those" to which the name does not rightfully belong are found by the United States department of agriculture to include as many as i? 7 species of trees, of 41 genera, scattered through 18 families of the vege-^' table kingdom. True mahogany is the wood of two closely related species, which grow naturally only from the tropical part of Florida and adjacent keys and islands to northern South America. Even true mahogany has many grades and local varieties, with weight varying from 52% pounds per cubic foot for Florida mahogany to 89 pounds for a Mexican kind.