Wood shavings - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 28789 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 210.00 CUPRESSACEAE Juniperus sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Wood shavings | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Wood shavings | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Wood shavingsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: August 1913. Used for plugging pots at Kew. Article enclosed from Oct. 1914, 'The Future Director of Ag. for San Thome in London': Whilst going round the houses at Kew we noticed that moist brown wood shavings were constantly to be seen ar, ound the pots. Asking our guide, Mr Taylor, whether these were not cedar, he told us they were and added that they got their supplies from Messrs. Pears, the soap makers, who bought it from pencil makers and extracted the scent from it previous to passin, g it on to Kew. It is worth while for a firm like Pears to extract scent from cedar waste, surely many of our readers who go in for cedar lumbering should also find it profitable to do the same with the tons of chips they accumulate in a year. The idea, is, at any rate, worth considering. This reminds us that some of our contemporaries are discussing the report that an American firm of lead pencil manufacturers is seeking a concession for the establishment of a factory in the State of Travancore, wherei, t is believed that plumbago and the cedar wood are to be found. | ||||