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Seeds are rarely produced on cedar trees growing in dense forests; but 

 trees, if planted in rich and moderately moist soil in open places, vri.ll 

 annually produce seed after they have attained the age of 6 to 8 years. If 

 die seeds he fresh and sound they readily germinate, but they are very liable 

 to deterioration, as has been already stated. 



As an instance, however, of cedar seeds retaining their vitality for a. 

 considerable period, Mr. Forester Brown, of Port Macquarie, relates, on the 

 authority of ~Mr. Donkin, that some land at. Kimbriki. Manning Kivcr, wa- 

 cleared. No cedar was then on it, no cedar trees near. There had been no 

 Hoods for years previously, yet twelve months afterwards numbers of young 

 i-cdars sprang up. 



It is one of the very fe\v Australian deciduous trees, although in the 

 warmest districts it is semi-deciduous, or even evergreen. It is a beautiful 

 tree, and is well worthy of cultivation for that reason, apart from its value 

 for timber. 



The following particulars in regard to the cultivation and conservation 

 of Red Cedar arc of public interest. It is hoped that landowners in suitable 

 districts will see that it would be enlightened policy on their part to propa- 

 gate such valuable timbers as'Eed Cedar. A few thousand well-planted and 

 Well-tended cedars would he a valuable legacy. 



Spasmodic attempts have been made to reafforest the Red Cedar in this 

 State. The Forest Department planted some on the Dorrigo, but the 

 plantations were neglected. Greater success has attended the small planta- 

 tions at Hogan's Brush, near Gosford. 



The following- I wrote nearly twenty years ago, but it may still be sug- 

 gestive: 



Mr. Brcckenridge, at Failford, near Cape Hawke, has the nucleus of a 

 good codar plantation, lie has not gone to much expense in the matter; but 

 has simply inexpensively fenced a part of the brush to keep cattle out. 

 Here mid there, in the rich soil, he has dug a small hole, and put in a 

 M-edling cedar. The young trees grow up with the rest of the vegetation, 

 and most of them are doing well. About all that is now done is to see that 

 the young cedars get fair play that is (say) that they are not choked out 

 of existence by some rampant growth. This very rarely happens, and 

 practically all the attention given is to keep one's eye on them during an 

 occasional walk in the brush. There are numbers of young seedlings at the 

 head of Wollamba Creek, and it is Mr. Breckenridge's intention to add to 

 his plantation! from that source. This little cedar plantation is a valuable 

 object-lesson to the hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of selectors and others 

 who have bits of brush land in the coast and coast mountain districts. An 

 inexpensive fence, seedlings which can usually be obtained in the district, 

 and which may be inexpensively planted about August, little labour and very 

 little supervision, and we have a cedar plantation. The plants grow up 

 under natural conditions; the brush land near creeks is often not utilised 

 at all under existing circumstances, and the land is being utilised with the 

 promise, in many cases, of yielding a fair interest for the outlay in (say) 

 thirty or forty years. Planting for posterity, perhaps; but forest planting 

 (as distinct from forest conservation) is usually planting for posterity. 

 What militates against plantations, as ordinarily carried out, is the heavy 

 initial expenditure expensive fences, heavy, and worse than useless clear- 

 ing, and costly non-residential supervision. I hope my readers will think 

 over the matter, and put in a small experimental patch next Reason. 



