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of eastern Australia I saw healthy young trees of J. Cedrus Webb & Berth, 

 native of the Canary Islands. The best of all species for pencil cedar-wood 

 (J. lucayana Britt.) I did not see anywhere in the antipodes nor such fine 

 species as J. mexicana Spreng., J. occidentalis Hook, and J. monosperma 

 Sarg. These I should think worth a trial. They are certainly ornamental 

 trees and so, too, is the Checkered-bark Juniper (J. pachyphloea Torr.) 

 which is occasionally grown in the gardens of southeastern Australia, 

 The Japanese J. procumbens S. & Z. does well in gardens in southeastern 

 Australia and New Zealand and is in fact a greater success than any other 

 Japanese conifer. In many places red spider plays havoc with Junipers 

 and nowhere in the antipodes do they seem to grow rapidly. The 

 wood lasts indefinitely in the ground but so does that of the Cupressus 

 and the Australian Callitris and it would appear to me that these trees 

 are better suited to the climates of Australia and South Africa. 



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A large number of species of northern broad-leaf trees have been planted 

 in Australasia and South Africa but with few exceptions they are not a 

 success. For forest planting none are of outstanding promise and in South 

 Africa and Australia south of the tropic the Eucalyptus is the hardwood 

 tree par excellence. In fact it seems probable that the genus is destined 

 to supply the greater part of the world's future needs of hardwood timber. 

 A few kinds of wood used for special purposes will always have their own 

 market but for general construction purposes Eucalyptus-timber will be- 

 come more and more important. In South Africa they grow 10 feet a 

 year and out of the great number of species there are some suited to all 

 climates from temperate to tropical. I very much fear that our northern 

 trees, neither at home nor abroad, will be able to compete with these 

 lusty, vigorous southerners in the field of commercial forestry. In New 

 Zealand but a few species of Eucalyptus grow well and these only in limited 

 areas but even there they do better than any of our northern broad-leaf 

 timber trees. 



The common European Oak (Quercus robur L.) has been extensively 

 planted in Australasia and South Africa and in general one must suppose 

 that sentiment rather than business acumen is responsible for this. Those 

 who have given any attention to the matter have realized that this Oak 

 is not suited to the prevailing climatic conditions and yet sentiment, and 

 to this may be added ignorance and enthusiasm, still causes these trees to 

 be planted in quantity. Memorial trees to those who fell in the Great 

 War have been planted in many lands — a commendable thing to do in 

 any country — but if the memorial is to be worthy and lasting, and such 

 its promoters fully intend it to be, the planting of trees suitable to the 

 country is of fundamental importance. This has rarely happened where 

 the white man rules. At Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, in 

 Kirg's Park an effort to plant a long avenue of such trees has been made 



