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into cups, card cases and other articles, and the polish which they 
have taken on is equal to,if it does not surpass, the finest old 
mahogany. 
The records of this timber having lasted in the ground as 
fence-posts are almost without number, and need not therefore 
be particularised here. There are instances of railway sleepers 
which were laid down 18 years ago and still appear as sound as 
ver. 
KARRI. 
(Eucalyptus diversicolor, F. Muell.) 
This is the giant tree of Western Australia, if not of the whole 
Aust a ee The latter remark is, however, disputed, 
but the a on is made without much en of contradiction. 
It is not en seien MEGA n a8 the Jarrah, owing to the limited field 
of its — and the, at present, comparative inaccessibility of 
its haun 
ate Baron von Mueller was ze first to give this tree its 
Sack ‘appellation (diversicolor), and this we are told by him 
nce to the paleness of the leaves upon their lower 
Sn ee ed Wb eucalypts generally. The common or 
cular name is the aboriginal designation of the tree. 
des its young stage it can hardly be beaten as a highly ornamental 
tree, being regular in its growth, straight and umbrageous, it8 
leaves changing in a few years from oval to the long broad ones 
which mark its more matured condition. "There is no doubt that 
this is the finest and most graceful tree in the Australian forests. 
hen mature, and attained to large dimensions, its appearance 
is grand in the extreme, and in this respect at least puts the 
Mun far into the shade. The trees are almost always of straight 
growth, and tower skywards for great heights without having 
even the semblance of a branch. So marked are they in these 
respects that they look like a mass of upright candles. The bark 
ellow-white in appearance, but not persistent like the 
Jarrah, It therefore peels off in flakes each year, and thus the 
tree has always a clean bright appearance. In consequence of 
this it is frequently spoken of as a “white gum,” although 
generally Aus as the mi 
an average tree may be put down at 200 feet in height, 4 feet 
in diameter at 3 to 4 feet from the ground, and about 120 to 
150 feet to the vg branch. "Trees of this size are Vendi sound 
in every respect, and may be expected to turn oui timber free 
from the usual A y r ot dry rot, gum veins, &c., to which large 
trees are usually subject. Trees of this size are what one usually 
meets with in the Karri forests, but much larger specimens are, 
of course, run against now and a again. For instance, on the 
Warren River, it is not unusual to meet with trees 300 feet = 
extreme height, g 180 feet in height to the first limb, and 3 
from 20 to ircumference at the base. Of course, these : 
are exceptional casos, but rures udi 
