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phutugraph trees: su that it is no us<' fur a t'riciid at Moit'c, tor cxaiiiiik', to 

 tell ine, "If you will only send a photographer up liere, 1 will show him a 

 splendid tree." 



For want of illustiations, T cmnot arrange my articles according to a 

 proper botanical or arboricultui'al clalssification. 1 begin with the oaks 

 (Quercus) simply because T ha\e some pictui'es of them. 



I cannot hold out any inducements at present to professional photographer.s 

 to take tree photograj)hs on speculation. '^Vko sentiment al)out our native 

 trees is touching. Acres of cold type are brought into play. Xo ti'ces are 

 like Australian trees ; no Australian trees are like New South Wales ones. 

 Study of them develops the national sentiment. How nice it is to teach our 

 children about them ; and so on. Then I go to one of the leading photo- 

 graphers in Sydney, and say to him, '" Mr. , I am a buyer of 



photographs of New South Wales trees ; send your, man all over the State 

 foi- subjects." He retorts : " My natural taste inclines that w'ay, and I have 

 shown my sincerity by spending over £100 in obtaining a large number of 

 pictures of New South Wales trees ; but you are the only man who has ever 

 bought one from me." 



So that this photogj'apliic door is closed to me. Fellow New South Welsh- 

 men, you buy photographs of sheep, of horses (especially racehorses), of 

 milking-cows, of politicians you buy a few, and of actresses probably more, 

 but you do not take portraits of trees, and do not buy them, simply because 

 this form of encouraging Australian industry has not been brought home to 

 you. A well-grown tree is one of tiie noblest w^orks of Nature! ]\[y message 

 in the articles which follow is only to lovers of trees. Trees have their points, 

 just as pigs and dogs have. AVill you let me win the sympathy of some of 

 you (I am not so foolish as to expect everyone's taste to be directed to trees) 

 for our trees, not merely our native ones, but the imported ones which do well, 

 or which promise to do well, in our richly endowed State of many soils and 

 many climates 1 



There is very little literature on the subject wi'itten in New South AVales 

 for New South Wales people, and still less with illustrations ; so that I am 

 engaged in missionary eftbrt, and I feel sure I shall have sympathy in con- 

 ducting the campaign T have undertaken. 



I shall not only deal with trees already acclimatised in New South Wales, 

 but shall include those which I think will readily flourish in some parts of 

 this State, and promise to be valuable acquisitions. 



It would be a very desirable thing if landowneis would ilo a little 

 specialising in regard to tiee-planting. For exampile, if one gentleman would 

 make a collection of oaks, another of poplai-s, another of pines, they would 

 bi' of great interest to the planter himself ; and, if he would recoi-d not only 

 his successes, but his failures, much valu^l)le information would be secured fc.r 

 the country which can be obtained in no other way. Of course such 

 specialisation would not interfere with any miscellaneous planting he niaj' 

 desire to indulge in, but a State arboretum seems still a long way off, and when 



