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
HMS Laburnum (1915) was taken into tow by "Laburnum" and the sloop after the destroyer had taken off most of "Farnborough"s crew. "Farnborough" was beached at Mill Cove. On 25 February 1917 "Laburnum" was patrolling to the west of the Blasket Islands, off the west coast of Ireland, when she was ordered to meet up with and escort the liner which was Liverpool-bound from the United States. Uncertainty about "Laconia"s location delayed the rendezvous between the ships, with the result that "Laconia" was torpedoed by the German submarine before "Laburnum" could arrive on the scene. While "Laburnum" could not prevent "Laconia" sinking, she