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Cypress Pine (Callitris robust a, R.Br.) which I have used, and find it is of 

 very little use for house-blocks, as it is subject to dry-rot; but will withstand 

 white ants, and is good for flooring-boards and house-building, when not 

 exposed to the weather or damp, the house being built on blocks. Have also 

 osed it for wire-mattress frames. 3 ft. x 2 ft. doors, lining boards (it polishes 

 well), picture frames. (R. J. Dalton, Tinapagee, Wanaaring.) 



Size. Height, 50-60 feet, (Forester Taylor, Wagga). It sometimes 

 Teaches a diameter of 18 or 20 inches. (Forester Postlethwaite, Grenfell.) 

 Attaining a height of 70 or 80 feet, with a diameter of 2 feet, the logs now 

 being brought in to the mills running from 30 to 50 feet. (Forester Smith, 

 Dubbo.) 



Habitat. In all the State except Tasmania. It is usually gregarious, 

 forming scrub forests on sandy barren lands. 



SOUTH WALES. 



It is abundantly distributed in the dry country west of the Dividing 

 Hange of this State. It is unnecessary to enumerate all the localities in the 

 National Herbarium, but following are some notes, chiefly by foresters, some 

 of them made some years ago, and now published for the first time: 



There is no pine growing in any of the reserves in my district, which extends 

 to the edge of the pine country about Wagga and Old Junee. I have searched 

 the country between Old Junee and Wagga for pine, and have only found a 

 few poles, and they chiefly in alienated lands. From Old Junee and Wagga 

 towards Narrandera, you get into the pine-country which is out of my district. 

 1 have seen a little pine in the Camping Reserve at Alfred Town, on the banks 

 of the Murrumbidgee, but no quantity, and also a small quantity between 

 Upper and Lower Tarcutta, but very small. (Forester Mecham. Tumut.) 



Native Pine grows in the hills, and the soil is of a rocky and stony nature. 

 On Poolanuicca Pastoral Holding, miles south of Torrowangee, they are very 

 scarce, only an odd pine-tree here and there. (W. X. Baker, Acting Forester, 

 Toorowangee. ) 



There is a great scarcity of matured pine timber in this district. The whole of 

 Ihe matured trees have been felled before the present reserves were proclaimed. 

 and great waste of valuable timber took place, the greater portion being 

 >il lowed to rot on the reserves. The following are the principal pine reserves 

 in my district, within the county of Townsend, and are all fairly well-timbered 

 with young pine, in all stages of growth. Nos. 1.901. 1,902, and 3,156. situated 

 on Puckawidgee Run; Nos. 1,87!) and 1.880, Steam Plains; No. 7, Conargo; No. 

 .1,404, Deniliquin; and part of No. 1.458, Warwillah Run. All these reserves. 

 with the exception of No. 1.458, have under my supervision been thinned, and 

 all scrub and undergrowth cut and burnt off by the lessees of the runs. The 

 limber has wonderfully improved since the clearing, and will become very 

 valuable in time. The only other pine reserve in my district of importance is 

 No. 3,103, situated on Chan Ling River, county of Wakool. This reserve is 

 'timbered with good pine; most of the trees are now suitable for telegraph- 

 iposts. Bush fires in this district have tended to destroy hundreds of acres of 

 Hplendid young pine forests, both on freehold and Crown lands ; very little fire 

 destroys the young timber. There are several other reserves in my district 

 that contain small patches of pine. The total area of pine timbers, including 

 all the reserves in my district, I would estimate at about 10,000 acres. 

 (Forester Wilshire, Deniliquin.) 



There are about 20,000 acres of land "upon the reserves in my district, well 

 timbered with pine. (Forester Payten, Corowa.) 



The number of reserves (pine) in my district is 101, and the area which 

 they cover is 467,625 acres. There is a plentiful supply of pine distributed 

 over these reserves in various stages of growth, from trees of half an inch in 

 'ircumference up to 4 feet. This pine* is of two varieties, known locally as 

 "Black and White Pine." (Forester Condell, Narrandera.) 



* This is roltitsta and calcarata but the former largely preponderates. 



