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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] I need some thoughts
  • Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:19:47 -0500

At 06:50 PM 05/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Cornus mas is as hard as tropical hardwood. I know someone who makes flutes
>of it. But the trees are neither big or fast growing.

The old-timers across Appalachia and into the Deep South used to use
C.florida to fashion mauls and wooden wedges for splitting firewood,
etc. After seasoning, C.florida wood is very hard & tough.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY




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