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importance which forest conservancy is rapidly assuming in these 
colonies. The gums (Zucalyptus) and their products alone 
would have made an interesting exhibition, especially the typical 
Australian tree—the blue gum (Zucalyptus globulus)—which 
has been so largely planted, with exceedingly satisfactory re- 
sults, in so many malarious districts in the warmer parts of 
the world. The South Australian Government, however, ex- 
hibited a number of interesting books and plates illustrative 
of its forest flora, and reports and plans of the management 
of its forest areas, which are now under a regular system of 
forest conservancy. 
From the Royal Gardens at Kew, London, there was sent by 
Sir Joseph Hooker an excellent Collection of Australian Woods, 
including many large and beautiful specimens, and embracing all 
the best known and most popular kinds indigenous to these and 
the adjacent colonies of Tasmania and New Zealand, which to a 
certain extent made up for the paucity of exhibits sent direct 
from Australia. 
Cape Colony. 
Other portions of the British Empire which came well to the 
front were our African Colonies—Cape of Good Hope, Natal, 
Gambia, and Sierra Leone. The Cape Colony has been sadly 
denuded of its primeval forests, and the best timbered parts now 
existing are situated in the mountainous region of Knysna, 
in the south-eastern district of the Colony. The forests have a 
coast-line of about 100 miles, with an average breadth of 25 miles. 
Recently the Cape Government have adopted very stringent 
measures of conservation to prevent the wasteful destruction 
going on, which threatened to lead at an early day to the 
total deforesting of the country. The forests are in process of 
being surveyed, so that they may be worked on a principle of 
rotation, and protective measures have also been taken against 
fires. Premiums of a substantial amount have been offered to pri- 
vate parties who will plant a certain number of trees ; Govern- 
ment plantations have been formed on the Cape flats and other 
waste lands; and nurseries have been established in which sap- 
lings are reared for the filling of gaps in the Crown forests, or 
for selling to private planters at a cheap rate. 
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