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of the stack, and there dried ipa the wind, In three or four 
— months the whole is dry enough to burn, and the stacks are set 
-.. on fire. In India they bury the plant after it is chopped down, 
- which is a much better plan, but our Karroo soil is too hard to 
. enable us to carry out this system effectually. 
gH" das Is there e particular season when the € should be cut 
down ime when it will decay sooner ?—.4. Winter is the 
best ime, for then the plant is full of sa sap. The more full of 
sap the — it decays. The latter part of autumn or winter 
is the denne ime. 
.CLXIV.—JARRAH TIMBER. 
(Eucalyptus marginata, Sm.) 
., OF late years a good deal of interest has been attached to the utilisa- 
tion of the rs of various species of Eucalyptus, several of which 
pee been ete for use in this ponin for outdour work where 
strength and durability were especially desired. The cost of freight, 
however, of this heavy timber from d aat. (where all the species are 
native) to England, is one reason w why they are not more generally 
adopted; another reason being their intense hardness, whi ch makes it 
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the principal woods of each Chilo EU r siia to tests by Messrs. 
Ransome and Sons, of Stanley King's Road, Chelsea, and a 
sport by MEA A. Ransome drawn E: published. 
Exhibition, as structural woods were the Jarrah (Eucalyptus mar- 
) 
ginata, Smith) and the Karri sod ft Rey lee gee F. Muell 
Fine logs of both were —— Ya ET Royal Gardens, and are n w 
exhibited in Messen No. 3 Tesi ec 148 cubic feet 
M m 
n, however, to the dev ip of the Jarrah than the Karri. 
ing over. the greater portion of the T from the Moore ue to 
King George's ien Da 18 also to Cape Leeuwin, forming mainly 
om RO of eferring to the wood Baron Mueller says, 
E haat Saga Hg cq 
* Colonial and Indian MON n, London, 1886. Re xt on tie. Colonial al Sectio 
Of the Exhibition, edited by H . Trueman ac - 
zm Ransome. London, Clowes and Son, 1 a Wood, Mts pter CN M Ab 
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