Shy, determined Chinese financier K.P. Chen stuck a feather in his cap last week. From Chungking he wired Manhattan’s Universal Trading Corp. to pay the final installment on a $22,000,000 ...

Tung tree is an oil-bearing woody plant species in the Euphorbiaceae family. The oil extracted from tung tree seeds, called tung oil, is an excellent dry oil that is resistant to heat, cold, acid, ...

What exactly is tung oil and why do they call it that? This came in by voicemail so I don't know for sure, but I bet you $1 this guy thought it was tongue oil, not tung oil. A perfectly reasonable ...

Q:I have a question about our outdoor teak furniture. We had it sealed with Penofin and it smelled bad for months. We were not able to sit on it because of the fumes. After a few months, the finish ...

Q: I clipped your article about using tung oil on outdoor furniture (Sept. 14), and put a first coat on my redwood patio table. I followed your and the manufacturer's instructions, and the table ...

The leaves of trees grown in this area come in many shapes and sizes. But the leaves of the tung tree were different. They were heart-shaped, and in March the trees bloomed in a bright pink variegated ...

QUESTION: I have been given several seedlings of a tung oil tree. I am interested in growing them because I need quick shade near a new structure. What are the negatives associated with this tree?

THE establishment of the tung oil industry in the United States has been so successful during the last few years that a move is now being made to expand it on such a scale that America will cease to ...

THIS tree (Aleurites fordii Hemsl.), an inhabitant of China, produces the Chinese wood oil of commerce, the oil being used in the manufacture of paints and varnishes owing to its rapid drying ...