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1867. The tree attains a height of fully 100 feet. The supply for out 

 local wants falls already short, and cannot be obtained from Tasmania, 

 where the tree does not naturally exist. 



Eucalyptus Sideroxyloa, Cunn. 



Iron Bark tree. It attains a height of 100 feet, and supplies a 

 valuable timber, possessing great strength and hardness; it is much 

 prized for its durability by carpenters, ship-builders, &c. It is largely 

 employed by waggon-builders for wheels, poles, &c. ; by ship-builders 

 for top sides, tree nails, the rudder (stock), belaying pins and other 

 purposes ; it is also used by turners for rough work. This is considered 

 the strongest wood in our colony. It is much recommended for railway 

 sleepers, and extensively used in underground mining work. 



Excsecaria sebifera, J. M. (Stillingia sebifera, Mich.) 



The tallow tree of China and Japan. The fatty coating of the seeds 

 yield the vegetable tallow. The wood is so hard and dense as to be 

 used for printing blocks ; the leaves furnish a black dye. The tree 

 endures the night frosts of our open lowlands, though its foliage suffers. 



Fagus Cunninghami, Hooker. 



The Victorian and Tasmanian Beech. A magnificent evergreen tree, 

 attaining colossal dimensions, and only living in cool damp rich forest 

 valleys, not rarely 200 feet high. The wood much used by carpenters 

 and other artisans', the myrtlewood of the trade. It requires to be 

 ascertained by actual tests in the forests, whether the allied tall ever- 

 green New Zealand Beeches possess any advantage over ours for foiest 

 culture, they are: Fagus Menziesii, Hooker, the Red Birch of the 

 colonists; Fagus fusca, Hook., the Black Birch ; Fagus Solandri, Hook, 

 the White Birch. A magnificent beech, Fagus Iloorei, F. von Muell. 

 occurs in New England, 



Fagus silvatica, L. 



The deciduous beech of Britain, of most other parts of Europe and 

 extra tropical Asia, and as Fagus ferruginea, Ait. in a particular variety, 

 extending through North America. The trunk has been measured in 

 height 118 feet, the head 350 feet in diameter ; the wood is hard, exten- 

 sively used by joiners and ship-builders. An allied Beech, Fagus 

 Sieboldii, Endl., occurs in Japan. All these could here be grown to 

 advantage only in our springy mountain forests. 



Ficus Sycamorus, L. 



The Sycomore Fig tree of the Orient, copiously planted along the road 

 sides of Egypt. The shady crown extends to a width of 120 feet. 

 Though introduced, we have as yet no local means of raising this tree 

 in quantity, and must therefore rely on fresh importations of cuttings 

 or more particularly seeds. 



Ficus macrophylla, Desfont. 



The Moreton Bay Fig-tree, which is indigenous through a great part 

 of East Australia. Perhaps the grandest of our avenue trees, and among 

 the very best to be planted, although in poor dry soil its growth is slow. 

 In our latitudes it is quite hardy in the lowland . The foliage may 

 occasionally be injured by grasshoppers. Easily raised from seed. 



Fraxinus Americana, L * 



The White Ash of North America. A large tree, 80 feet high, which 

 delights in humid forests. Timber valuable, better resisting extreme 

 heat than the common Ash. The Red Ash (Fraxinus pubescens, Lam.), 

 the Green Ash (F. viridis, Michx.), the Black Ash (F. sambucifolia, 

 Lam.), and 'the Carolina Ash (F. platycarpa, Michx.), are of smaller 

 size. 



