ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
Nos. 155-156.] NOVEMBER and DECEMBER. (1899. 
DCLXI—JARRAH AND KARRI. 
THE use of the two ot Australian woods, Jarrah and Karri 
especially for w ood paving, has agr the subject of several articles 
in the Kew Bulletin (1890, p 188-190; 1893, pp. 338, 339; 
1897, pp. eg age ge Ar 72-75 5). 
he deman timbers has continuously increased. 
They are not re aban in the Colony of Western Australia, 
and the extent of the forests producing them and the consequent 
available supply are matters of some interest. These points were 
fully discussed by Mr. J. Ednie-Brown, the Conservator of Forests 
for the somar (whose death has, unhappily, recently occurred), 
in his Report upon the Forests Ad —- Australia, The first 
edition published in 1896 havi exhausted, a second was 
issued in 1899. As it is not ma ma me in this country, 
the following accounts of Jarrah and Karri are extracted from it 
(pp. 10-15). 
It may be noted that the Timber Museum of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens (No. III.) contains a magnificent log of Jarrah, weighing 
nearly five tons, which was shown at the d and Indian 
Exhibition, It also contains a log of Karri exposed between high 
and low-water mark in Western Australia for E 49 years, and still 
in good condition. This is noteworthy, as it will be seen there 
is some doubt as to its capacity for resisting decay under such 
conditions. 
* Within the last three years the Colony, from an indefinite and 
comparatively little-known market, has bounded into . m = 
export timber trade with most parts of the world. 
very large exporters of timber ^ America, India, the Kontinent 
of Europe, and, of course, to Great Britain ; and there are signs 
ken before long we shall "rie considerable dealings in this way 
progressive China an 
‘fon nearly all the ma d more particularly in England, 
there has arisen a wonderful demand for * Australian Hard Woods," 
which, to a large extent, means those of Jarrah and Karri; and 
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