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rugged bark and aromatic odour give them a peculiar and 

 unmistakable character. 



The Eucalypti of Australia and Tasmania are known in 

 Europe for their high reputation as hygienic agents in 

 districts infected with malaria, and have been tried on the 

 Italian Campagna with satisfactory results. 



The growth of the trees is rapid, E. globidus, the Tas- 

 manian blue gum, having attained a height of 26 ft., with 

 a mean circumference of 26 inches in a little over four 

 years in Italy. Other trees of eight years' growth attained 

 to 50 ft. high and 3 ft. in circumference. Mr. H. N. Draper, 

 M.E.I.A., has grown them in the neighbourhood of Dublin 

 to a height of 26 ft. with a circumference of 22 inches in 

 five years. They appear to survive a temperature which 

 does not fall below 23 Fahr., but on one occasion in Italy, 

 when the thermometer fell to 20 Fahr., half the plantation 

 was destroyed. 



Now that the forest areas of America and the regions 

 round the Baltic are being denuded of their best timber 

 and, so far as regards America, we can see within a com- 

 paratively short period a dearth in timber supplies from 

 that region it is pleasant to know that we have the 

 immense virgin forests of our Australian colonies to fall 

 back upon for part of our future supplies, districts in which 

 the felling industry can be carried on all the year round, 

 where there are no icebound ports, so that the timber can 

 always be shipped, and where there is no difficulty in 

 obtaining labour as is the case in fever- stricken climates, 

 such contingencies as seriously trouble timber importers in 

 many of the regions from which our present supplies 

 come. 



Little is yet known in the timber market of the timbers 

 of Australia, only a few of them having as yet been 



