CHAPTER XXIX. 



Trees Suitable for Planting on the Plains. 



With good soil, plenty of moisture, a temperate atmosphere, and a 

 sheltered situation, it is at all times an easy matter for good results to be 

 obtained with ordinary care by the general planter in the higher-lying 

 regions of our glorious country ; but when he has to cope with a short 

 water supply, a bleak open site subject to fiercely-hot and bitterly-cold 

 winds such as are experienced on the plains of our northern areas, his 

 work is one beset with difficulties, and often ends in bitter disappoint- 

 ments. These plains of ours are somewhat peculiar ones, and although 

 possessing soils of great depth and of the richest description, they are, 

 generally speaking, so much exposed and uninviting, that at present it 

 is only a limited list of trees which wiU grow upon them with any degree 

 of health and rapid growth. No doubt this will undergo great and 

 important changes for the better as the country gets more densely popu- 

 lated and the hedges and plantations begin to exert their influence upon 

 its atmospheric condition. At the present time, however, we have got to 

 cope with the conditions such as they exist, and do the best we can imder 

 the circumstances. 



With the view, then, of preventing disappointments by the inex- 

 perienced planting unsuitable trees, I give the following as a list of those 

 kinds which may be expected to do well on the more exposed portions 

 of the plains : — 



Acacia Pyenantha — (Benth.) " Broad-leaved Wattle." 



Cupreasm Sempervirens — (Linne.) " The Common Erect Cypress.'' 



Cupresiui Sempervirens Sorizontalis — (Miller) " The Horizontal Cypress." 



Emalyptm Globulus — (La Billard.) " The Tasmanian Bluegum." 



Eucalyptus Corynocalyx — (Mueller.) "The Sugar Giun." 



Eucalyptus Rostrata— (Soh.) " The Bed Giun." 



Eucalyptus Carophylla — (R. Brown.) " The Bed Giun of W. A." 



Eucalypti Cornuta - (La Billard.) " The Tate Gum." 



Eucalyptus JDiversicolor — (Mueller.) " The Kani Giun." 



Eucalyptus Siderophloia—{Beiitba.m) " The Red Ironbark." 



Eucalyptus leucoxylon—^ihielleT.) " The S. A. Bluegum." 



Eucalyptus Odorata - (Behr.) "The Peppei-mint Gum." 



Ficus Macrophylla—CDeTi.) " The Moreton Bay Fig." 



