DCHP-3

bois inconnu

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the hackberry, Celtis occidentalis.

Quotations

1800
Bois inconnu is the best wood we have, preferable to birch or any other I know of. It is light, and bends remarkably well. We have none of it N. of this place [45 miles south of Emerson, Man.], but the further S. we go the more plentiful it is.
1951
They built snow-shoes of the bois inconnu.