CYPRESS - COMMERCIAL WOOD Cypress (Taxodium distichum) is one of the stronger and heavier softwoods, which, with the exception of greater weight, perhaps resembles redwood more closely than it does any other conifer. Cypress is one of the more durable woods; and some remarkable records of the longevity of cypress lumber and shingles are claimed by the manufacturers of this wood. Cypress works well, has a good figure, and a rich color in the red variety. The largest usefulness of cypress is in mill work, so far as factory purposes are concerned, as will be seen from Table 79.
Table 79 Factory Uses of Cypress Purpose Per Cent Mill Work 76 Boxes and Crates 6 Tanks and Silos 5 Caskets and Coffins 3 Machine Construction 2 Laundry Appliances 2 Woodenware and Novelties 1 Furniture and Fixtures 1 Other Uses ' 4 Total 100 • Because of its durability, cypress is also much used for siding, shingles, railroad ties, and other purposes where it is exposed to decay-producing influences—among these latter uses being greenhouse construction.
The wide range of usefulness of cypress is indicated by the following list of articles into the manufacture of which this wood enters : Agricultural implements Balusters (porch) Altars Baseboards BeehivesGrain elevators • Blinds Greenhouses Boat parts Hay baler parts Boat siding Hay loader parts Bottoms (oil tanks) Hoppers (poultry houses) Bottoms (water tanks) Ice cream freezers Boxes Incubator parts Butter tubs Interior finish Cabinets (ice cream) Knifeboards (mowers) Cabinet work Launch parts Candy pails Lodge furniture Carvings Mantels Casing (house) Musical instruments Casing (incubators) Nests (poultry houses) Caskets Pails Churns Panels (delivery wagons) Cisterns Panels (doors) Cold frames (hotbeds) Panels (light vehicle bodies) Colonnades Patterns Columns (porches) Picture moldings Conservatories Porch work Conveyors Pumps Cornice Refrigerators Covers (laundry machines) Road rollers Crating Roof slats (light vehicle beds) Decking Sash (storm) Discs (laundry machines) Screen doors Door frames Siding Doors Signal devices Drawers (bottoms) Silos Drawers (ends) Spindles Drawer sides (furniture) Spraying apparatus Dropboards (poultry) Stairwork Dust arrester parts Starchers (laundry) Electric cars (interior work) Staves (oil tanks) Feed mills Staves (water tanks) Finish (boats) Stepping Fixtures (bank) Store fronts Fixtures (soda fountains) Tanks Fixtures (store and office) Tanks (water closets) Flasks Towers (tanks) Flour mills (machine parts) Trunks .
Frames (vapor bath tubs) Tubs (laundry) Frames (window tenth) Vats Vats (vinegar) Well machinery Washers (hydraulic) Well tubing Washing machines (hand) Window frames Water closets (unexposed Window screens parts) Windmills Water pipes Wringers (laundry)