deals, select tanning material, cork, pitch, turpentine, 
and many other products be gained far more readily 
there than elsewhere in Victoria, from sources ren- 
dered our own? Ought we not to test in these val- 
leys how far the Sisso, the Sal, the Teak, may prove 
hardy, and as important here as our Blackwood and 
Eucalypts abroad? Or shall I enumerate all the orna- 
mental woods for furniture, machinery, instruments, 
which form an endless array of genera, and species 
might be chosen as introducable, indeed, from most 
lands ; many of these, perhaps, to find an asylum inour 
mountains before—tike in St. Helena and other isolated 
spots—the remarkable and endemic trees are swept 
by man’s destructive agency from the face of the 
globe ?. Shall I speak in detail of the trees which 
yield dyes, and many medicinal substances ? If the 
Turkey Box-tree should continue the best for the 
wood-engraver, it would, in these valleys, assume its 
largest dimensions. I do not hesitate in affirming 
that out of ten thousand kinds of trees, which proba- 
bly constitute the forests of the globe, at least three 
thousand would live and thrive in these mountains 
of ours; many of them destined to live through cen- 
turies, perhaps, not a few through twice a thousand 
years, as great historic monuments. Within the 
railway-fences, hitherto in this respect unused, trees 
might be raised as materials for restoring, locally, the 
sleepers, posts, and rails, prior to their decay. The 
principles of physiology, the revelations of the micro- 
scope, aud the results of chemical tests guide us, not 
only in our selections of the trees, but often teach us, 
beforehand, the causes and reasons of durability or de- 
cay. 
