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height of fully one hundred feet. The supply for our 
local wants falls already short, and cannot be obtained 
from Tasmania, where the tree does not naturally 
exist. 
Eucalyptus sideroxylon, Cunn.—Iron-bark tree. It 
attains a height of one hundred feet, and supplies a 
valuable timber, possessing great strength and hard- 
ness ; itis much prized for its durability by carpen- 
ters, ship- builders, etc. It is largely employed by 
wagon-builders for wheels, poles, etc.; by ship-build- 
ers for top-sides, tree-nails, the rudder (stock), belay- 
ing-pins, and other purposes; it is also used by turn- 
ers for rough work. This is considered the strongest 
wood in our colony. It is much recommended for 
railway-sleepers, and extensively used in underground 
mining work. 
Excecaria sebifera, J. M. (Stillingia sebifera, 
(Mich. ).—The tallow-tree of China and Japan. The 
fatty coating of the seeds yields the vegetable tallow. 
The wood is so hard and dense as to be used for print- 
ing blocks; the leaves furnish a black dye. The 
tree endures the night frosts of our open lowlands, 
though its foliage suffera. 
Fagus Cunninghami, Hooker.—The Victorian and 
Tasmanian Beech. A magnificent evergreen tree, 
attaining colossal dimensions, and only living in cool, 
damp rich forest valleys, not rarely two hundred feet 
high. The wood much used by carpenters and other 
artisans, the myrtlewood of the trade. It requires to 
be ascertained by actual tests in the forests whether 
the allied tall evergreen New Zealand beeches pos- 
sess any advantage over ours for forest culture; they 
are; Fagus Menziesii, Hooker, the Red Birch of the 
