5o6 



Journal of Agriculture. 



[lo Aug., 1910. 



soon as their roots have penetrated to any depth, the trees would do as well 

 as in soil apparently ten times more promising. Far more unpromising 

 soil has been .successfully and profitably afforested in the Black country of 

 England and in .some of the mountainous districts of Scotland and France. 



The timber used by the dredges is causing the sides of the valley to V)e 

 rapidly depleted of their native timber, with the result that, before long, 

 the mountain sides will be denuded of their soil and landslips of soil and 

 loose rocks into the valley below will become of common occurrence until 



£ amygdahna 

 £ mminalii 



I L paucdlora 



^^^? M' FeallieiHop 



pauCjflora 



^ £ pauclflora 

 Jf yar alpina. 



L JJUUCL 



rar olp 



una '''hlli-r^^^^W^ '"''' "'P' 





I. flora 



DISTRIBUTION OF ACACIAS AND EUCALYPTS IN THE OVENS VALLEY. 



the hillsides are practically bare. One difficulty in the way of profitable 

 tree planting would lie in the distance from an open market, but it would 

 be an easy matter to construct a water flume down the whole length of the 

 Ovens River Valley so that sawn timber could be easily conveyed to the 

 rail head at Bright. In any case, the tree planting would not be for the 

 present but for the next generation, and would provide an occupation tor a 

 portion of the population, when all the profitable ground has been dredged. 

 The only part where any large area of big timber exists at present is at the 



