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tionally reaching to the height of four hundred feet, 

 with a proportionate girth of the stem. The timber 

 is excellent. Fair progress of growth is shown by the 

 young trees, planted even in dry, exposed localities 

 in Melbourne. The shady foliage and dense growth 

 of the tree promise to render it -one of our best for 

 avenues. In its native localities it occupies fertile, 

 rather humid valleys. 



Eucalyptus globulus (Labill.). — Blue Gum of 

 Victoria and Tasmania. This tree is of extremely 

 rapid growth, and attains a height of four hundred 

 feet, furnishing a first-class wood. Ship-builders get 

 keels of this timber one hundred and twenty feet long ; 

 besides this, they use it extensively for planking, and 

 many other parts of the ship, and it is considered to 

 be generally superior to American Rock Elm. A test 

 of strength has been made between some Blue Gum, 

 English Oak, and Indian Teak. The Blue Gum car- 

 ried fourteen pounds weight more than the Oak, and 

 seventeen pounds four ounces more than Teak, upon 

 the square inch. Blue Gum wood, ^besides being used 

 for ship-building, is very extensively used by carpen- 

 ters for all kinds of out-door work ; also, for fence-rails, 

 railway-sleepers — lasting about nine years — for shafts 

 and spokes of drays, and a variety of other purposes. 



Eucalyptus gomphocephala (CandoUe). — The 

 Tooart of S. W. Australia. Attains a height of fifty 

 feet. The wood is clqse-grained, hard, and not rend- 

 ing. It is used for ship-building, wheelwright' s work, 

 and other purposes of artisans. 



Eucalyptus maeginata (Smith) rThe Jarrah or 



Mahogany tree of S. W. Australia, famed for its inde- 

 structible wood, which is attacked neither by che- 



