Laburnum musical instruments. In addition to such wind instruments as recorders and flutes, it was a popular wood for Great Highland Bagpipes before taste turned to imported dense tropical hardwoods such as "Brya ebenus" (cocus wood), ebony, and "Dalbergia melanoxylon" (African monkeywood). The heart-wood of a laburnum may be used as a substitute for ebony or rosewood. It is very hard and a dark chocolate brown, with a butter-yellow sapwood. "Laburnum" species and hybrids are cultivated as ornamental trees for gardens and parks. They are also trained as espaliers on pergolas, for ceilings of pendant flowers in season. In its natural
USS Laburnum (1864) Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and Fort Sumter and she continued to labor restoring order to the waters of South Carolina until after the end of the war. "Laburnum" decommissioned 24 January 1866 and was sold at auction in New York City to L. J. Belloni 16 March 1866. The tug was redocumented as "D. P. Ingraham" 14 May 1866 and served commercial shipping until sold to a foreign purchaser in 1878. USS Laburnum (1864) USS "Laburnum" (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a tugboat and