...first and second being among the largest trees known. They are all excellent timber. Swietenia mahagoni is, perhaps, the most majestic of trees ; for though some rise to a greater height, this tree, like the oak and the cedar, impresses the spectator with the strongest feelings...

...first and second being among the largest trees known. They are all excellent timber. Swietenia mahagoni is, perhaps, the most majestic of trees ; for though some rise to a greater height, this tree, like the oak and the cedar, impresses the spectator with the strongest feelings...

...and in those that open on the Bay of Honduras, it expands into a trunk so gigantic divides into such massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly flowers, so far around, that it is difficult to imagine a production of the vegetable world combining so fully...

...timber of a single tree sometimes produces $4,000 or $5,000. The mahogany, or " Swiettnia mahogani, is perhaps the most majestic of trees ; for though...leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly flowers, over BO vast an extent of surface, that it is difficult to imagine a vegetable production, combining in...

...timber of a single tree sometimes produces 84,000 or g5,000. The mahogany, or " Swietenia mahogani, is perhaps the most majestic of trees ; for though...divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of ils shining green leaves, spotted with tufts of pearly flowers, over so vast an extent of surface,...

...and second being among the largest trees known. They are all excellent timber. Stoietenia mahogani is, perhaps, the most majestic of trees; for though some rise to a greater height, this tree, like the oak and cedar, impresses the spectator with the strongest feelings...

...useful purposes. The wood of another species of this genus, the common Mahogany (Swietenia mahoffoni) is perhaps the most majestic of trees, for though some rise to a greater height, this tree, like the oak and the cedar, impresses the spectator with the strongest feelings...

...large, but are more curiously veined; and &re known in Europe as Madeira wood. Steietenia mahogani is, perhaps, the most majestic of trees; for though some rise to a greater height, this tree, like the oak and the cedar, impresses the spectatorwith the strongest feelinp...

...and beautiful of trees ; its trunk is often forty feet in length and six feet in diameter ; and it divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its shining green leaves over so vast an extent of surface, that few more magnificent objects are to be met with in the vegetable...

...among intertropical trees. Its trunk is often IbrtyTfeet in height, and six feet in diameter ; and it divides into so many massy arms, and throws the shade of its glossy foliage over so great an extent of surface, that few more magnificent objects are to be met...