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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 18, 1875, | 
forest үө should be арро н, so that timber 
properly selected. 
A Pen tm has been said at differen E times about 
the strength and durability of the manian Blue 
Magn (Eucalyptus Veo We but M. т. Kirk shows that 
wet situations, for instance, as T een for 
es, no w Kauri ( а ацѕ- 
tralis), and Tot pus Totara.) These two 
ar haps the most valuable woods of the colony. 
The Red Pine or. Kiu ium cupressinum), 
a tree of some 60 o runk 
т 80 feet h ith a Oo 
3 to 5 feet in diameter, Y found; рач the бов, 
timber has largely used for public works, 
(Podocarpus dacrydioides), a tree growing from 50 to 
100 feet high or me is often € m the "colony 
sj ork 
this exhibited at per. tai 
B us spicata), a tree of from 50 t 
96 Sag € throughout the a ie but less abund- 
r pper Waikato, produces a wood 
= , which is used for piles for bridges, 
w hts work, railway sleepers, house 
bu c. Asin many of the New Zealand timbers 
eat confusion, it is said, n from the crossing 
and misapplication of the common names of this 
yon and the ‘‘ Mivo (Podocarpus ferruginea a), so 
t it has been often dificult to yep what timber 
y either name, and to in correct in- 
ecially as the pe kinds bear a 
timber 
er 
is common s billy 
s in LÍ e orth Island, He more ааа т in їп 
un . ltis a straight growing 
aces 50 to ie feet "high. The wood is very Lade 
and is specially р x railway sl planking 
for grained, 
eepers, 
light colour, close 
‚апа heavy ice аю tenes 
very closely the best European Cro 
i ears, and seriously injured in less 
four; nevertheless, it is a valuable wood for many 
Vitex ene known also as New Zealand Teak, 
к и мей ач ч е with, - its similarity 
а ооа urability to, true tree 
from 40 to бо feet high, йз indir 
wing 
it seems, is оа to pe attack of the larvee ‘ot 
i sometimes 
ght of an inch in [ers —— | 
timber is mot directly affected, and 
er attacked up. It is extends sis 
wel for piles for ai ge a ag a 
е m MOM 
n. Mr. 
AS Birch is a noble tree, 
h Island, to Otago, 
ys: he true Bla 
found from Kaitaia, p^ ithe a 
dors 
It is certain that the reputation of Fagus fusca has 
suffere a from the substitution of other ti 
as Bla = л жиз? 
W timber 
greatly ‘resembles ‘tha ot Оң true Black Birch, but 
ay b once distinguished by its ius is 
The з treated of in this report are 
all inferior in ipr dure pee etg о е genios. 
as fo Rom ing 
h атга n heir 
value :— White h of N e d ? Black 
Birch of Wellington, Cnr Ps Ne x n, 1, Fagus 
Solandri ; Red Birc s Meuziesii ; y owe 
rk a, Metrosi- 
Metrosideros aci fi f Ta -ba 
deros a; Rata, Metrosideros par ; 
Elæ i 
nnia osa niek a, Knightia зы ; 
Mapau n Me Bar ig T esodaphne T 
Taraire, Nes aphne huit; Mange ao, Tetranther ra 
i mee ime ningham O muy olata, 
кү 
Toro. It wi from this list 
hree distinct plants are by the native 
na Maire, besides the Black Maire (Olea 
apetala), which pena wood o larger size than 
eothers; all, however, are strong, close-grained, a 
durable, "A fine indio of the — k pn ire t in 
e um ape 
of 
o be readil distinguishable 
M k st 
most of w n A s 
ninghami in our museums belon lea apetala, the 
lack Maire.” Of the Fuchsia (F. excorticata), a 
portion of a trunk about 8 feet high and 2 feet 
forms a durable timber for house building. A 
реза > -blocks which have been in use mo 
than twenty years are reported to be still sound d 
od. 
In the article in the appendix, “ On the best seas 
= р timber in New Zealand," Ич Kirk dis 
e idea, prevailing amongst persons, 
hat t om have no period of rest in the colony—an 
idea, he says, arising probably from certain fancied 
| Gala dés bod: m 
resemblances between the climate and Ms eae of 
ew Zealand and of tropical countries, but 
tiere is very slight foundation. This Subject i is of 
[low me interest to justify us quoting it in full. Mr, 
ir 
“It is true that on the coast north of the Auckland 
isthmus, especially on the eastern side, frosts are but 
little known, so that ,vegetation does not receive the 
of winter; but it by no means follows from this that 
trees are growing as freely as duri ing the spring and 
summer months, ше at m о Bay = Islands deciduous 
trees shed their lea е h, Elm, Sycamore, 
Be are as bare during win asin am 
of Europe; it is, thereon, obvious om a complete 
cessation of lace, 
* At Maugere, cae 
1 
es p. 
y 11 miles 
our native trees, 
bri the s slightest discoloration. It is 
hat at Mm i 
LN take e during the 
months and this P demo nei T 
chara: e: summer З. idi 
аи i a greater or = E rti 
of the herbaceous маат Соте rat por ion 
mei shelter of the mayer fores 
a more active condition, but even here 
edited to a minimum, wi man ii e flowerin: 
shru oes not produce new leaves until the spring. 
The е pro cts exh gps cm d Totaia, of 
resisting y pe acks of teredines for a longer period th 
that felled in the winter, appears to pe t upo 
uses peste ith the greater activity of the sap at 
e former season as compared wit rmant con- 
dition in the latter. There can, therefore, be no ques- 
ion that, even in the warmest parts of the colony, the 
circulation of th ees is ina much less activ 
condition in th t in the summer, and 
consequently that the Cr ied of eh "pe: felled in 
the winter is much less suffer fro е process 
of fermentation fon У ей during uc spring or 
summer mon ms ue the Southern ts of 
the colony an d inus of th ion at 
Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, and the c Blut shows 
pus ME is : months of 
pril, " е, and probably July. ‘So obvious В 
: dis ther P only suppose age Fc have been 
deeply i 
with the occasional flowering E 
small shru 
bs during the win 
d be to Suppose 
flowering of certain plants in favourable 
mere cd in the British islands evidenced similar activity 
Elm, and Pine o ern 
b: 
Kauri forests of the dense о 
ant under all other thern I have, therefore, no 
hesitation in rec ding, n rule, that 
timber should not be felled before April or later than 
July, except in the M of the Kauri, which in many 
situations may be felled from to June е, but much 
must be left to the Susraent of the forester. 
Т. R. Zacks 
GRAFTING: 
EFFECTS OF STOCK ON SCION. 
Gr tos Guillaume Gr 
t also on its own roots, The results 
under these three conditions Ры strikingly differ. 
~ In both houses on the cat stock it swells 
s berries much more Me E and to a Fo 
Rx than it does on its own roots in bw 
А ines of the same age. In the 
cooler Black Hamburgh - ho it neithi { 
ch large berries пог bunches, but it colours much 
ore rapidly in Muscat temperature 
pruning on the Muscat th W. 
the Black Hamburgh. D. T., iz p? d Canto” 
Home Correspondence, — 
Harvest Moon (Enquiry No. 58. ). —1 have EO 
considered that the ** harvest m was i 
William Ea i: 
—— The moon 
seen as 
sun is in the constellation Libra, w 
. The a 
so li ter night in the autumn В 
because its declination north is s geting gr greater ; 2 
spring ihe declination ee еы is g 
resent moon, iis, pe by t 
short) astronomical facts a E. S. Jd 
he. “һаг moon е * hunters 
moon’ >on” usually porte clint in September: and O October. 
This harvest moon took place on August 1% 
The кй Ps full only when in aedi to the suh 
is in the signs of Virg 
r and t th of October, 
in a similar predicament, is termed the hunter's 12^: 
write this in answer to the queries of “ 
harvest moon rises almost at 
