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Messmate has the same botanical name as the Stringy 

 Bark of Tasmania (E. obliqud) and furnishes good and 

 durable building material. 



Grey Box (E. keinipJdoia) is a similar wood to that of the 

 same name in New South Wales ; it is of a pale brown or 

 grey colour with inlocked grain, heavy, hard, and durable. 

 Both it and the timbers mentioned above are much used 

 for railway sleepers, especially grey box, red ironbark, and 

 red gum ; the latter has a life of from eighteen to thirty 

 years in the track. 



The above, and Stringy Bark, to a small extent, are also 

 used for telegraph poles ; in each case the bases for 5 to 6 ft. 

 up being charred and coated with a mixture of gas tar, 

 Stockholm tar, and slaked lime. 



Bairnsdale Grey Box (Eucalyptus bosistoana), a tree which 

 attains a height of 100 to 150 ft., produces a very valuable 

 and durable piling timber for wharves and jetties and may 

 be obtained in lengths of 60 or 70 ft. ; it is also 'used for 

 railway wagon frames, fencing posts, spokes and felloes of 

 wheels, and for sleepers. 



Yellow Stringy Bark (E. mnelleriana) is employed for the 

 same purposes as Bairnsdale Grey Box. 



Yellow Box (E. melliodora) is found in scattered belts 

 over the colony ; it is a fairly durable timber with inlocked 

 grain. Used for piling and beams. 



Blackbutt (E. amy-ydalina reynans) is the tallest tree of 

 the Victorian forests, attaining a height of over 300 ft. It 

 is a different wood to the blackbutt of East Gippsland, 

 Victoria, which is the same as the New South Wales variety, 

 and it differs also from the Western Australian blackbutt 



