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indebted to Mr. Hill^ the zealous and energetic Director of the 

 Botanical Gardens at Brisbane, for an excellent account of these 

 articles, both wild and cultivated. 



These productions, which are chiefly cultivated in the Botanic 

 Gardens at Brisbane, will form an instructive and interesting 

 feature of tlie forthcoming Exhibition ; and our readers are in- 

 formed that similar papers, on this economical department of 

 botany, will be published occasionally during the course of tliis 

 season. 



The products of Queensland intended for exhibition in London 

 "were exhibited at Brisbane for some weeks in October, 1861, as 

 we learn from a local newspaper, the ' Courier,^ of November 14, 

 1861; and the collection was visited by all the influential settlers, 

 previously to its transmission to England. 



" One of the most striking features of the Exhibition is the 

 display of woods indigenous to the colony, which occupies the 

 tables at the northern end of the building, and a portion of the 

 centre table in the same part of the Exhibition. For this fine 

 display of specimens of woods indigenous to Queensland the 

 colony is indebted to the exertions of Mr. W. Hill, Director of 

 the Botanical Gardens. Polished specimens of all these woods, 

 as well as specimens of the timber in its rough state, are exhi- 

 bited; whilst some of the pieces have been manufactured into 

 stockwhip handles, etc. The portion of the catalogue relating to 

 this exhibition of timber has been prepared by Mr. Hill, and will 

 prove valuable in bringing the capabilities of the colony in this 

 branch of produce into notice, containing as it does remarks de- 

 scriptive of the nature of the trees and the qualities of their 

 woods, so far as they could be ascertained. In placing the cata- 

 logue before the public, Mr. Hill says, 'It does not contain all 

 the woods indigenous to the colony, but only such as could be 

 procured (during a few stolen hours from other duties) at no 

 considerable distance from Brisbane. The immense and grand 

 scrubs bordering upon the banks of the rivers Mary and Burnett, 

 the northern watersheds, the vi^estern interior, and southern dis- 

 trict, have not been examined at all,' 



"This collection consists of 120 varieties, which have been 

 procured within a radius of twenty miles of Brisbane. In it will 

 be found woods of almost every description, suitable both for Her 

 Majesty's navy and Her Majesty's boudoir, being equally available 



