PLANT CATALOGUE, 



ANDERSON, HALL & CO., SYDNEY. 



N. S. WAIiES HABDWOOD TIMBKR-TBEES. 



In many respects, no timbers in the world can com- 

 pare witli those of Australia. For all purposes requir- 

 ing great strength, combined with great durability, 

 they are unapproached. Those of New South Wales 

 have, as a rule, a reputation in those respects superior 

 to those of similar species in the other Australian colo- 

 nies. This superiority has been noticed more par- 

 ticularly in tougher and closer - packed tissues. So 

 much is this the case that, for some particular pur- 

 poses, such timber as Iron-bark and Blue Gum have 

 to be obtained from New South Wales for use in 

 Victoria, although both species are common there. 

 Among other peculiarly valuable properties possessed 

 by our timbers,- for such purposes as bridges, jetties, 

 or any other buildings where strong timber may be 

 used, not the least is the valuable quality of diflScult 

 ignition and lack of inflammability. 



Of late years these woods, and the forests which 

 produce them, have attracted a great deal of attention 

 In Europe, not only for the qualities of the timber, 

 but for other properties, which are being from time 

 to time discovered by science, and promising extraprr 

 diuary riches in both medicine apd the iirts, 



