EUCALYPTUS TREES. 201 
a stem of twenty feet in circumference ; it is called 
Mahogany Pine by the colonists. The reddish, close- 
grained, and durable wood is valuable both for build- 
ing and for furniture, and is also extensively used for 
telegraph-posts ; it is considered the most valuable 
timber of New Zealand. Many other tall timber-trees- 
of the genus Podocarpus or Nageia occur in various 
parts of Asia, Africa, and America, doubtless all de- 
sirable, but the quality of their timber is not well 
known, though likely in many cases excellent. Na- 
geia is by far the oldest published name of the genus. 
Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, Rich.— Celery Pine of 
Tasmania. <A stately tree, up to sixty feet high, with 
a stem of two to six feet in diameter. The timber is 
valuable for ships’ masts. It will grow to advantage 
only in deep forest valleys. 
Phyllocladus trichomanoides, Don. —Celery Pine 
of New Zealand, northern island; it is also called 
Pitch-pine by the colonists. The tree attains a height 
of seventy feet, "with a straight stem of three feet in 
diameter, and furnishes a pale, close-grained timber, 
used particularly for spars and planks; the Maories 
employ the bark for dying red and black. 
Pinus Abies, Du Roi. (Pinus picea, Linne.)— 
Silver Fir, Tanne. In Middle Europe, up to 50° N. 
Lat., forming dense forests. A fine tree, already the 
charm of the ancients, attaining two hundred feet in 
height, and twenty feet in circumference of stem, 
reaching the age of three hundred years. It furnishes 
a most valuable timber for building, as well as furni- 
ture, and, in respect to lightness, toughness, and elas- 
ticity, it is even more esteemed than the Norway 
Spruce, but is not so good for fuel or for charcoal. It 
