Vol. XIX. Part 4. APRIL 2, 1908. 



Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales. 



Forestry. 



Some Practecal Notes on Forestry suitable for New 



South Wales. 



[Continued from page 188.] 



J. H. MAIDEN, 



Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic (lardens, Sydney. 



XVTI — continued. 



Conifers. 



X. 



.Sub-tribe 2. — Laricece. 



15. LariX, 8alisbuiy. " The Larch" 



This is a genus of alpine or sub-ali)ine trees confined to the northern 

 hemisphere. Larches do not do well in New South Wales, merely existing 

 in a few places. At the same time they cannot be said to have been 

 thoroughlv tested, say in such places as Southern Monaro. 



16. Pseudolarix, Gordon, 



Lat'icopsis of Yeitch's Manual. It is proposed to supersede Pseudolarix 

 for purely literary reasons. " Nature produces nothing false," certainly not 

 in the Greek sense of pseudos. Admitted that the name is not a model one, 

 but if botanical nomenclature were to be disturbed on such grounds it would 

 be much more unstable than it is. 



(1). P. Kaempferi, Gordon. "Chinese or Golden Larch." 



A tall tree, native of China, inflorescence umbellate. Deciduous. 



It just exists in the Sydney Botanic Gardens (M 18). It should be well 

 tried in the coldest districts, for it is a beautiful tree. 



17. Cedrus, Loudon. 



A genus of stately ti-ees known as Cedar in Britain. 



There are three easily distinguishable forms, conventionally recognised as species but 

 scarcely so in a strictly scientific sense, i-espectively known as the Cedar of Lebanon, the 

 Deodar or Indian Cedar, and the African or Mount Atlas Cedar. 



Tlie typical form which iidiabits the slopes of Mount Lebanon and the Cilician Taurus, 

 has been known as The CVr/'n- from remote antiquity ; the existence of a second Cedar 

 forming extensive forests in the north-west Himalaya was not known to science till the 

 commencement of tiie nineteenth century ; whilst the presence of a third on the Atlas 

 Mountains of Algeria was not suspected till the discovery after the occupation of the 

 country by the French in 1831. — ^(Veitch's Manual, p. 406.) 



The geographical distribution of the Cedars is remarkable ; they are confined to three 

 separate regions in the great mountain systems that cross the eastern continent betweea 

 the 28th and .SSth parallels of north latitude with but little interruption from the Atlantic 

 Ocean to the China Sea [op. cit.).. 



