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TIMBERS FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES. 



This list of special uses of our principal native timbers does not, of course, 

 profess, to be exhaustive. It may, however, be suggeative. It vpill be added 

 to from time to time. 



Bee-hoxes. 

 Cedar. 

 Beech. 



Bending Timbers. 

 Spotted gum. 

 Blackwood. 



Cedar. 



BoaUhuilding. 



Boat-knees. 

 Prickly tea-tree. 



White tea- tree and other tea-trees. 

 Water gum. 

 Eed honeysuckle. 

 White honeysuckle. 

 Mangrove. 



Boring-rods (for artesian wells) . 

 Spotted gum. 



Bridge-deching. 

 Tallow-wood. 

 Eed mahogany. 

 White mahogany. 

 Blackbutt. 

 Spotted gum. 

 Murray red gum. 



Broom-handles. 

 Rosewood. 

 Beech. 



Blue-berry ash. 

 Spotted gum. 

 Tallow-wood. 



Bulloch-yohes. 

 Eiver oak. 

 Swamp oak. 

 Brush box. 



Hickory or Black wattle. 

 Mangrove. 

 White honeysuckle. 



Butter-loxes. 

 Colonial pine. 



Butter-Jcegs. 

 Silky oak. 

 Eed silky oak. 



Carriage-luilding. 



(See my article on this Bubjeefc iu the Agri- 

 cultural Gazette for August, 1894, page 549). 



Coachwood. 



Eed cedar. 



Eosewood. 



Plumwood. 



Beech. 



Brown or bully beech. 



Colonial pine. 



Blackwood and mountain hickory. 



Carving. 

 White holly. 

 Cheesewood. 

 Coachwood. 

 White teak. 

 Native orange. 

 Scrub hickory. 

 Soapwood. 

 Corkwood. 

 Long Jack 

 Eosewood. 

 Plumwood. 

 Black bean. 

 Cedar. 

 Beech. 

 Brown pine. 

 Colonial pine. 

 Native guava. 

 Gelastrus dispermus. Both this and 



the preceding are beautiful white 



woods. The Gelastrus has no 



common name. 

 There are probably very many other 



useful carving timbers. 



