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rhe following two illustrations show the results of the two methods very 

 well. They represent large trees oi E. Smithii growing in proximity to each 

 other .u Hill Top, New South Wales. In one case the branches had been lopped, 

 and in the other the tree felled nearly to the ground. With both, two years' 

 growth ol foliage is show n 



Plate LXXXIX. 



EUCALYPTUS SMITHII. 

 Showing two years' growth from lopped trees 



Plates lxxxix and xc demonstrate that, with this species at any rate, 

 considerable advantage is to be derived by felling the trees in the first instance, 

 and it is evident that the leaf material can be more easily gathered from the 

 shrubby regrowth, or as it is called in Australia, the " suckers." 



The vitality shown by trees of E. Smithii. as well as by some other oil 

 producing Eucalypts, is remarkable, and the leaves and branchlets may be 

 removed again and again as required for oil distillation, the reproduction being 

 continuous over a long period of years. 



