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best wood for resisting the attacks of sea- worms and 

 white ants. For other details of the uses of this and 

 other native trees, refer to the reports of the Victori- 

 an Exhibitions of 1862 and 1867. The trees attain 

 a height of fully one hundred feet. The supply for 

 our local wants falls already short, and cannot be ob- 

 tained from Tasmania, where the tree does not nat- 

 urally exist. 



Eucalyptus sideeoxylon (Cunn). — Iron - bark 

 tree. It attains a height of one hundred feet, and 

 supplies a valuable timber, possessing great strength 

 and hardness. It is much prized for its durability 

 by carpenters, ship - builders, etc. It is largely em- 

 ployed by wagon - builders, for wheels, poles, etc. ; 

 by ship-builders for top-sides, tree-nails, the rudder 

 (stock), belaying-pins, and other purposes ; it is also 

 used by turners, for rough work. This is considered 

 the strongest wood in our colony. It Is much rec- 

 ommended for railway-sleepers, and extensively used 

 in underground mining work. 



[Copied from an additional list offered to the same 

 society by the same author, and published by said so- 

 ciety in 1874— pages 64, 65, 66, 67, and 68] : 



Eucalyptus acmenoides (Schauer). — New South 

 Wales and East Queensland. The wood used in 

 the same way as that of E. obliqua (the stringy-bark 

 tree), but superior to it. It is heavy, strong, durable, 

 of a light color, and has been found good for palings, 

 flooring-boards, battens, rails, and many other pur- 

 poses of house carpentry. (Eev. Dr.' Woolls.) 



Eucalypti* boteyoides (Smith). — From East 

 Gipps Land to South Queensland. One of the most 

 stately among an extensive number of species, re- 



