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attains a height of 100 feet, and supplies a valnal)le timber, possessing 

 great strength and hardness ; it is much j^rized for its durability by 

 carpenters, shipbuilders, &c. It is largely employed by waggon-builders 

 for wheels, poles, &c. ; by shipbuilders, for top-sides, treenails, rudder- 

 stocks, belaying pins, and other purposes ; it is also used by turners 

 ■or rough work. It is very extensively employed for the handles of 

 axes and other implements by Victorian manufacturers. It is much 

 recommended for railway sleepers, and extensively used in underground 

 mining. It is considered the strongest wood in our colony. As the supply 

 of its very durable timber is falling short, and as it is for some purposes 

 superior to that of almost any other Eucalyptus, the regular culture of this 

 tree over wide areas should be encouraged, especially as it can be raised on 

 stony ridges not readily available for ordinary husbandry. The wood is 

 sometimes pale, and in other localities rather dark. The tree is generally 

 restricted to the lower Silurian sandstone and slate formation, with iron- 

 stone and quartz. It is rich in kino. Next to E. rostrata it has thriven best 

 about Lucknow, in India, among the species tried there for forest culture. 

 " Eucalyptus maryinata (Smith), the Jarrah, or Mahogany tree of South- 

 west Australia, famed for its indestructible wood, which is attacked by 

 neither chelura, termites, nor teredo, and therefore so much sought after 

 for jetties and other structures exposed to sea water ; also for any under- 

 ground work, and largely exported for railway sleepers. Vessels built 01 

 this timber have been enabled to do away with all copper plating. It is 

 very strong, of a close grain, and a slightly oily and resinous nature ; it 

 works well, makes a fine finish, and is by shipbuilders here considered 

 superior to either oak, teak, or indeed any other wood. The tree grows 

 chiefly on ironstone ranges. At Melbourne it is not quick of growth, if 

 compared to blue gum or to stringy bark {E. ohlt'qua), but it is likely to 

 grow with celerity on our ranges. Instances are on record of the stem 

 having attained a girth of GO feet at 6 feet from the ground, through the 

 formation of buttresses. 



" Eucalyptus amygdalina, La Billardiere. — In our sheltered springy forest 

 glens, attaining not rarely a height of over 400 feet, there forming a 

 smooth stem and broad leaves ; producing seedlings of a foliage different 

 from the ordinary state, as it occurs in the more open country. This species 

 represents the loftiest tree on British territory, and ranks next to the 

 WeUingtonia gigantea in size anywhere on the globe. The wood is fissile, 

 well adapted for shingles, rails, house-building, the keelson and planking 

 of ships, and other purposes. Seedlings raised on rather barren ground 

 near Melbourne have shown the same amazing rapidity of growth as those 

 of E. globulus, yet, like E. obliqua, they are not so easily satisfied with any 

 kind of soil. It has endured the frosts of the milder parts of England with 

 E. polanthemos and E. viminalis. In New Zealand it has survived the cold 

 where E. globulus has succumbed. E. amygdalina urniyem, cocci/era, rostrata 

 and corymbosa have proved at Rome, according to the Eev. M. Gildas, 

 more hardy than E. ylohulus, clivcrsicohr, resinifera, longifolia, and melUo- 

 dora. Professor Balfour states that E, viminalis has stood for thirty years 



