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camand and Coonoor, in and about which they have been planted CHAP. VI. 

 very largely. The Forest Department have planted several Floka. 



hundred acres of Eucalijptus gluhiilus, the blue-gum of Tasmania, 



and there are also extensive plantations of Acacia melanoxylon 

 and dealhata. They are all excellent firewood, and, in the event 

 of a railway being made up the ghdts, plantations of this sort will 

 be very profitable, the growth being exceedingly rapid and 

 the yield per acre very large (probably not less than 25 tons 

 per annum from EucaJi/pfns globulus and 15 tons from Acacia 

 dealbata). 



Numerous species of Eucalyptus have been introduced from 

 Australia, amongst which may be mentioned E, sideroxylon (the 

 iron bark), E. ohliqua (stringy bark), E. fissilis (mess-mate), 

 E. viminalis (manna- gum), E. amygdalina (the gigantic box-gum), 

 E. rostrata (the red-gum), E. perfoliata, besides many other 

 Victorian species as doing well. Some West Australian Eucalypti, 

 such as E. marcjinata (the jarrah or mahogany tree, the wood of 

 which stands exposure to sea-water, and in Australia is much in 

 use for jetties, ship-building, railway sleepers, &c.) and E. calo- 

 phylla, have been introduced and will grow with care, but they 

 do not stand the frost when young, and have to be carefully 

 covered up in December, January, and February until they attain 

 certain dimensions. 



Very many of the Australian Acacias, besides those above 

 mentioned, have been introduced and ornament our gardens- and 

 roads, &c. Amongst them are Acacia liomolopliylla (the myall 

 or violet wood). Acacia pi/cnantha, A. salicina, A. decurrens., 

 A. cultriformis, A. dodonoeifolia, A. elata, A. longifolia, A. saligna, 

 A. pulchella, Alhizzia lophantha, besides many others. 



Many other Australian trees and shrubs have also been intro- 

 duced into gardens on the plateau, amongst which are many 

 species of Hakect, Grevillea and Banlcsia, Casuariua quadrivalvis 

 and suherosa (the she-oak and he-oak), Pomaderris (three species), 

 Myoporum insulare, Pittosporum (two species), Melaleuca (several 

 species), Leptosp)ermum (several species), Callistemon (two species), 

 Beaufortia, Kunzea, Calothamnus, Angopliora, Tristania, &c. 

 Many of the Coniferce have also been introduced from the Hima- 

 layas, Japan, and other countries, the most successful of which 

 are Gupressus macrocarpa, Latvsoniana, torulosa, serrqoervirens and 

 Cashmericma. Araucarias Bidwillii and Cunning hami. Criptonieria 

 Japionica. Frenela species, Pinus p)inaster and longifolia. 



Some of the European pines, such as the Larch and Scotch 

 Fir (P. laricio and P. sylvestris) and some of the Himalayuu 

 Abies have quite failed to grow. 



Coffee now covers many acres of the slopes between 2 000 'lud 

 5,000 feet. 



