[mairdie]

I don't know about the wood quality of magnolia, but I use poplar as a finished board wood, which everyone says should be painted, as my library wood because of its finished beauty. The trick, because it's a soft wood, is finding the trick to maintaining the grain before staining.

[Daffynition]

The Pinchot Sycamore, in Simsbury, Connecticut. Worth a trip from anywhere. :)

I believe it is the largest tree in CT.