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mountains and high table-lands, frequently forming timber-line, which is about 6500 

 ft. on Mount Kosciusko. In the Braidwood district, however, it occurs at all levels 

 up to the highest point, 5000 feet, and attains 80 ft. in height and 5 ft. in diameter ; 

 and Maiden states that all reports from this district agree in stating that the timber 

 is soft, durable underground, but of no use above it. De Coque says ^ that the timber 

 is inferior, being only used locally for fencing purposes ; and recommends that it 

 should be avoided by architects for use in work of any description. Cattle browse 

 on the foliage in seasons of drought. 



Mueller says that "the chief interest of this species concentrates in its quality to 

 cope with rather severe frosts ; indeed, together with E. Gunnii, it constitutes minia- 

 ture forests up to 5500 feet in the mountains, growing close to glaciers, which on 

 the shady sides of glens do not wholly melt in Victoria, wherever situated over 6000 ft. 

 high, — though in the cooler latitudes of Tasmania, the limit of eternal snow descends 

 1000 ft. lower, — it being understood, only in the wide crevices of chasms of rock, or 

 in other places where the sun cannot exercise any direct effect. Thus the bare crests 

 may be free of snow in the height of summer even at nearly 7000 feet ; and we have 

 therefore nowhere in summer an absolute permanent snow-line in the strict sense 

 of the word." 



I am unaware of the date of the first introduction of this species, which has been 

 tried only in a few places. It has very pendulous branches, and is an elegant tree 

 producing abundance of flowers. At Abbotsbury, it was killed in igo8 when 16 ft. 

 high. At Colwyn Bay, N. Wales, Mr. A. O. Walker says^ that a tree about fifteen 

 years old, had its leaves slightly injured by 19° of frost in January 1894. 



The Rev. Dr. Landsborough states^ that in Arran the species has borne 21° of 

 frost without injury, producing flowers every year, and equalling E. coccifera in 

 hardiness. A tree at Craigard, Lamlash, sown in 1879, was 25 ft. high after being 

 topped in 1895, when it produced seed, from which plants were raised in the 

 Edinburgh Botanic Garden. It is one of the species that Mr. Osgood H. Mackenzie 

 cultivates at Inverewe. 



At Fota, in the south of Ireland, there is an old tree, about 50 ft. by 6 ft. 8 in., 

 which was blown down in 1903, and then replaced in position. The stem is now 

 partially decayed. At Rossdohan, Kerry, Mr. Heard has several trees, the largest 

 about 31 ft. by i ft. 8 in. He says that all his species of Eucalyptus grow as well 

 in peat as on gravel, being more easily blown down in the latter soil. 



(A. H.) 



' Journ. Proc. Roy. Sac. JV.S. Wales, xxviii. 214 (1894). 



2 Gard. Chron. xvi. 74 (1894). According Ka Jouni. Roy. Hort. Soc. vlii. 120(1887), and Card. Chron. ii. 784 (1887), 

 this tree was not injured in the severe winters of 1878-1879 and 1879-1880. 



3 Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xx. 519 (1896), and xxiii. 147 (1905). 



