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.\ usTiiAMAX Forests. — iJense forests 

 arc increasing in Australia, the climate 

 is growing more moist, and even the 

 great central desert may become habit- 

 aljle. 



Forests in Carolina. — There are 

 no less than 40,000 square miles of 

 almost unbroken forests in North 

 •< ,'arolina — Pine, Chestnut < )ak. Maple, 

 Beech, and Hickory, in their finest 

 growth. 



TiMiiER IX New South "Wales. — 

 The impression that New South Wales 

 is (histitute of timber useful for indus- 

 trial purposes is erroneous, says a con- 

 temporaiy, since the luagniticent collec- 

 tion of woods prepared by direction of 

 the Colonial ( iovernment for the Cal- 

 cutta Exhibition includes various kinds 

 of Cedar, Boxwood, Gum, Wattle, 

 Myrtle, and Pine, and many other kinds 

 known only by name to European.s. 



Old Oak. — The remains of the 

 < 'luirlemagne bridge o^■er the llliine at 

 Mayence was recently being excavated, 

 .and the timber was foun<l to be well 

 l^reserved. Some of the Oak is as Ijlack 

 ^is Ebony and vei-y rich. Mr. Joseph 

 Patrick, of Westendstrasse 1, Frank- 

 fort-on-the-Main, has had some carved 

 chairs, with ])ressed leather backs and 

 seats, manufactured from some of the 

 best piles. 



Forest (jIrowtii. — A remarkable 

 instance of the rapid growth of forest 

 trees, says an American paper, recently 

 came to light, Avhich was the result of 

 u search for the original survey marks, 

 I>laced upon a Beech tree by two 

 surveyors about twenty-seven years 



ago. They were searching for a corner 

 of a section, and found it by cho])ping 

 into the side of the tree about three 

 inches and s])litting a section ofi" which 

 uncovered the original m;irk, which 

 shows the letters ' N.B.T.' which were 

 indented in the flatted surfa<'e by the 

 Government surveyors. The wood is 

 perfectly sound and solid, and the 

 black paint still adheres to the surface. 

 The specimen will be placed on 

 exhibition to satisfy the curiosity of 

 the public. 



A Few Woxderitl Trees. — The 

 ' Kit Carson tree ' on the ranch of 

 Henry Kellogg, near Las Animas, Col., 

 is twenty-feet five inches in circumfer- 

 ence two feet fi'om it sbase. A Pine 

 tree in Irwin ( "ounty, Ga., has two dis- 

 tinct bodies, but only one top. The 

 trunks gi-ew out of the ground about 

 five feet from each other, but at forty 

 feet gr-ew into each other, forming one 

 tree, with one top. The waliuit tree 

 which served as a whipping- post where 

 deserters and Tories were i)unished du- 

 ring the Revolution, still stands near 

 Fishkill. The iron rings to which the 

 culprits were tied while being whipped 

 are hidden by the bark that lias grown 

 over them. A Buttonwood that was 

 vigorous tree during the Bevolution 

 still stands on the farm of George San 

 gex-, Canterbury, ( 'on. It is seventy 

 feet high, the trunk measuring sixteen 

 feet in circumference two feet from the 

 ground, and is the same size around 

 twenty-tive feet above, where the 

 branches first project. 



When to Clt. — A correspondent of 



