208 AUSTRALIAN FOBEST ADMINISTBATION. [Jan., 



operations once in about fifteen or sixteen years, or perhaps less. 

 Some requisite wooden and stone buildings were also erected during 

 the year, and about 47 pounds of Eucalyptus seed were collected. 



The season's planting commenced on the 28th of April, and ended 

 on the 29th of July. The total areas already enclosed for planting 

 and forest renovation in Wirrabara amount together to 1,847 acres. 

 Into these enclosures 34,000 plants were transplanted from the 

 nursery ; of these, 1,690 Eucalyptus plants were transplanted, with 

 their bamboo tubes. The numbers of each different species planted 

 in Wirrabara were as follows : — 



Pinus insignis, Remarkable Pine 13,."541 



,, lialepeiisis, Aleppo Pine ... ... ... ... 1,320 



„ pinaster. Cluster Pine ... ... ... ... 5,747 



Eucalyptus viminalis. Manna Gum ... ... ... ... 1,430 



„ globulus, Tasmanian Blue Gum... ... ... 6,308 



„ corynocalyx. Sugar Gum ... ... ... ... 760 



„ marginata, Jarrah ... ... ... ... ... .o80 



Catcdpa spociosa, American Cat'ilpa ... ... ... 406 



Fraxinus cxcelsa, English Ash ... ... ... ... 3,150 



Ulmus suberosa, Cork Elm ... ... ... ... 820 



„ campestris, English Elm 163 



Acer pseudo-platanus, Sycamore ... ... ... ... 41 



Cupressus sempervirens. Erect Cypress ... ... ... ... 4 



„ torulosa, Bhotan Cypres.s ... ... ... 2 



Plaianus acerifolia, Maple-leaved Plane ... ... ... 3 



34,075 



The stock of plants left in the nursery, comprising about 262,000 

 forest trees realised as follows : — 



Open root ... ... ... 238,220 



In pota ... ... ... ■... 5,780 



In bamboos ... ... ... 18,000 



262,000 

 In three of the enclosures the renovation of the indigenous forest 

 is being accomplished b}' natural regeneration. It is estimated that 

 in these; during the past year ,at least 5,000 trees have sprung up. 



From the list of species planted it will be observed that the 

 vegetation is of a rather sub-tropical character, and therefore, in 

 comparing Australian circumstances with those of European forests, 

 reference must be made not so much to England as to Spain, Italy, 

 and the South. In the Mount Gambier Forest, in the southern 

 district, Piniis canariensis, the Pine of the Canary Islands, and 

 Pinuspivea, the Stone Pine, were also planted ; the Stone Pine is 

 characteristic of Naples and Sicily. The various kinds of Eucalyptus, 

 or Gum, are cultivated with some difficulty near Eome and in 

 Corsica. In Australia and Tasmania they are indigenous, and attain 

 a gigantic height: in less than a hundred years; according to Mr. Guil- 

 lemard, some specimens of these big trees have attained the prodigious 



