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altitude. I have found Gunnii a hardy strong grower almost 

 wherever planted. -The timber is quite second rate. 

 Unsifted seed averages 14,130 to the ounce. 



Eucalyptus Jiemiphloia. Var. Albens. 

 GREY BOX GUM. 



Maiden recommends this for planting in inland dry 

 districts such as the lower Karoo. It is slow-growing and 

 furnishes a somewhat ill-shaped and very hard but durable 

 timber. 



Eucalyptus leucoxylon. LEUCOXYLON GUM- 



This has been wrongly described as a smooth-barked 

 variety of the Sideroxylon Iron-bark. (Mueller describes 

 the two trees under leucaxylon.) The Leucoxylon Gum 

 furnishes a first- class timber almost equal to the Iron- 

 bark, with which it has been confounded. It is of a 

 sprawling habit when young but then shoots upwards with 

 great rapidity. It has shewn a remarkably fine growth 

 under irrigation at Clanwilliam winter rainfall 9" : higL 

 summer temperature. 



Eucalyptus longi folia. LONGIFOLIA 01 

 WOOLLY BUTT GUM. 



This tree is a native' of extra-tropical-Australia and 

 winter or mixed rains. It has been planted to a consider- 

 able extent in the Government plantations in Cape Colony, 

 It is a favourite at Ceres Eoad on account of its straight, 

 regular and vigorous growth. Mueller and Maiden both 

 give the timber a good character, though the latter 

 adds that it is deficient in strength and liable to 

 gum veins and un soundness at the heart. The tim- 

 ber is dark red and not unlike red Iron-bark in ap- 

 pearance for which it is sometimes substituted. It is 

 very durable. Longifolia Gum may be considered to 

 afford a good second class timber, excellent for fencing 

 posts on account of its straight growth and durability. 



