AUSTRALIAN PICTURES. 



out for destruction in the neighbourhood of towns and cities. The Rostrata 

 has an enormous spreading upper growth. Some of the limbs rival in size 

 the parent stem, and will be gnarled and contorted in a manner recalling the 

 writhings of the Laocoon. It should be studied from a distance, for their 

 enormous weight sometimes causes the branches to snap suddenly without 

 the slightest warning, to the ruin 

 of all below. 



The rival of the red gum as a 

 timber tree is the jarrah, an euca- 

 lypt peculiar to Western Australia, 

 where it grows in forests. Seen in 

 its home on the Darling range, or 



Silver-stem Eucalypts 



the hills of Geographe Bay, the jarrah is a magnificent tree, running up to 

 a hundred feet before it branches, and reminding the spectator sometimes of 

 the rostrata, and sometimes of the giant gum. The specialty of the jarrah 

 is its power to defy the ravages of the insect world and of the sea. This 

 is complete. An examination recently made of a pier at Banjoewangie, 



