234 TIMBER 



(E. patens\ The timber is something like English oak in 

 appearance when properly seasoned, and is used for ordinary 

 building material and a good deal for palings, shingles, 

 rails and mining timber. 



Silver-top or Bastard Ironbark (E. sieberiana), also known 

 as Gippsland mountain ash and sometimes as white iron- 

 wood, is also called mountain ash in New South Wales and 

 ironbark in Tasmania. There is another variety known as 

 woollybutt. Neither is durable in contact with the ground, 

 but both furnish building material of fair quality. 



The Cypress Pine (Callitris verrucosa) is the same as that 

 of New South Wales, as it comes from the Murray Eiver 

 district, which forms the boundary between the two colonies. 



Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon} produces the valuable 

 fine-grained timber which has been described in the section 

 dealing with Tasmania. 



Evergreen Beech (Fagus cunninghamii) is also found in 

 Tasmania (which see). 



Other smaller timber trees or brush timber, such as 

 sassafras (used for saddle trees and boot lasts), box olive 

 and other timbers, which furnish woods of beautiful grain 

 for veneers, carving, etc., are also indigenous to Tasmania. 



It may be said generally that the forest region of 

 Southern Victoria corresponds to a considerable extent 

 with that of Tasmania, whilst in the northern part of the 

 colony the trees are of a kind common to New South 

 Wales. 



TIMBERS OF QUEENSLAND. 



The most valuable woods are to be found in the coastal 

 districts. The ironbark and other eucalypti, as well as 

 Moreton Bay pine (^4. cunninghamii), are most plentiful 



