

THE PRINCIPAL TIMBER TREES 



EEADILY ELIOIBLE FOB 



VICTORIAN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE, 



with indications of their native countries and some of their 

 technologic uses. 



AN ENUMERATION OFFERED BY 



FERD. VON MUELLER, 



C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.L.8., F.R.G.S., C.M.Z.S., 



Commander of the Order of St. Jago, Vice-President of the 

 Acclimation Society of Victoria. 



This enumeration originated in a desire of the writer to place 

 before his fellow colonists a succinct list of those trees, which in our 

 geographic latitudes can be grown to advantage. Calls for such 

 information arose gradually in the department of the Botanic 

 Garden of Melbourne, not merely because it impressed itself more 

 and more on the mind of every thoughtful settler, that the wanton 

 waste of the native forests should be checked, but that also largely 

 should be added to our timber riches by means of copious and 

 multifarious introductions from abroad, and that for these introductions 

 the widest possible scope should be allowed. Nevertheless this list 

 is far from claiming completeness, either as a specific index, or as a 

 series of notes on the principal technologic applicability of the trees 

 most accessible. Indeed it may be regarded simply as a precursor 

 of larger essays, such as the intended forest administration will 

 gradually call forth. Meanwhile, however, this brief explanatory 

 catalogue may facilitate locally that information, which hitherto was 

 afforded by the authors correspondence chiefly. 



It seemed beyond the scope of this writing to tabulate the trees 

 here enumerated, in reference to climatic regions. The inhabitant 

 of colder and moister mountains in this colony, or the settler in the 

 hotter and more arid tracts of country, can readily foresee from the 

 brief geographic notes given with each tree, which kind should be 

 chosen for the spot, selected by him for wood-culture ; but if doubts 

 in this respect should arise, the needful advice will readily be offered 

 by the writer. 



Though this list was originally prepared and alluded to as an 

 appendage to a lecture* recently delivered at the Melbourne Industrial 

 Museum, I was honored by my colleagues of the Council of the 

 Acclimation Society in their giving publicity to this document 

 along with their last annual report, the Society being quite as anxious 



* The Application of Phytology to the Industrial Purposes of Life. 



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