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is also mucli infested by scale — Coccus adonuhim. — • 

 If planted on the uplands of Kadnr and Shimoga 

 (not in the interior of the forest) the Moreton Bay 

 pine Avonld attain better growth. In cultivation, it 

 requires the same general treatment as the other 

 species of the genus. " Diameter, 36 — 60 inches ; 

 height 150 to 200 feet. This majestic tree is, 

 without exception, the most ornamental and useful 

 tree in Qiieensland. Its beautiful regular pyramidal 

 form, and the sombre green of its awl-shaped foliage 

 command general admiration. It covers immense 

 tracts of land along the coast, and in the interior. 

 It overtops all other trees ; wjiether growing on the 

 alluvial banks near rivers, or upon the steep and 

 rugged mountains in the interior. Its branches are 

 produced in whorls from six to eight in number, 

 horizontally and spreading. The bark is thick and 

 brownish. The timber is an article of great com- 

 mercial importance, and is used extensively in this 

 colony. The Avood is strong and durable when 

 kept dry, but soon decays when exposed to alter- 

 nate damp and dryness. , When produced from the 

 mountains in the interior, it is fine-grained and is 

 susceptible of a high polish, which excels that of 

 satin wood or birds-eye maple. The resin which 

 exudes from the trunk is very remarkable ; it has all 

 the transparency and whiteness of crystal ; and that 

 portion of it which adheres to the trees, hangs from 

 them in tte shape of icicles, which are sometimes 

 3 feet long and 6 to 12 inches broad. The saAvyers 

 receive at the present time Qs. Qd. to 7s. per hundred 

 superficial feet, some trees yielding as much. as 

 10,000 feet of saleable timber." Walter Hill. 



Araucaria Cunninglmmii var glauca is a variety 

 with silvery foliage recently introduced for trial. 



585 Thuja orientalis, Linn. 



