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bunya tree and native nut-tree is secured against be- 
ing felled. The very local and circumscribed Kauri 
forests, known only in two limited spots, would also 
need some protection.] To the facilities of exporting 
the huge, square Todea Ferns—a commerce initiated 
by myself—I alluded on a former occasion. 
Having dwelt on some of the technologic or mer- 
eantile products obtainable from the native forests— 
few, it is true—I now pass on to some brief observa- 
tions in reference to enriching the resources of our 
woods. 
Among new industries which, by introduction from 
abroad, are likely to be pursued in sylvan localities, 
that of the cultivation of the Tea shrub of China and 
Assam stands, perhaps, foremost. It is a singular fact 
‘that even in the genial clime of Southern Europe, and 
under advantages of inexpensive labor, the important 
and lucrative branch of Tea-culture has received as yet 
noattention whatever. This is probably owing to the 
circumstance that hitherto the laborious manual pro- 
cess of curling the fresh Tea-leaves under moderate 
heat has never yet been superseded by adopting for 
the purpose rollers worked and heated by steam, 
though such contrivance was suggested here by me 
many years ago. : 
The tea thus obtained could always be brought to 
its best aroma by such a mode of exact control over 
the degree and duration of the heat. Tea-culture in 
the ranges would show us which soil, or which geo- 
logic formation, produced here the best leaves. The 
yield of the latter would, in the equable air of the hu- 
mid air of the forest-glens, be far more copious than 
