TASMANIAN FORESTS: THEIR BOTANY AND ECONOMICAL VALUE, 21 
exceptions, the leaves and young branches are quite of a 
different pattern and plan from those of the gore tree. The 
earlier stages fall mite and leave the tree still more bare as it 
grows up. That light and shade and absence of ‘aentenieit are 
the main causes.can be easily seen on the more exposed summits. 
At Mount Juliet the trees at the base are very lofty, though not 
the most lofty of the range or equalling those of the Black Spur ; 
but at about 400 feet below the summit the timber becomes 
stunted and ragged, and those lofty trees on the slope which send 
these branches thus far partake of the knotted twisted character, 
and have them all very singularly bent towards the mountain 
y the prevailing direction of the winds to which they are 
exposed. 
it is a very important fact to ascertain if these views as to the 
growth of the Hucalyptus are correct. There are plenty of deep 
might tried 
Alps favourable places might very easily be foun am convinced 
that the trees are of very rapid growth, a even the largest are 
not of great nen ee abt not affect them. In many of the 
gullies of Tasmania the snow sig around ‘the trees for six months 
neither would much time be re a for the experiment. 
Baron yon Mueller assures us in his “ Select Plants’ that the 
ee is wang more hardy ee the — or lemon tree 
size, one would be Sicliaed to attribute to Foss wreat antiquity. 
I was very anxious to collect data on the subject; but to 
nea all my inquiries I i received mere guesses ; from 
R. Hill is the proprietor of an extensive sawmill at Honey wood, 
on the Huon; he is alsoa shipbuilder and hop-grow: 
from him that I sie derived the most of the statistical ‘tector 
tion in the paper, and the facts which did not come under my 
ersonal observ sian and I take this aca of pang 
im for his readiness in affording every aid to inquiry, an 
express the hope that the Colony may long profit by his intelli- 
gence, industry, and enterprise. Mr. Hill assured me that some 
of the gum trees, a A atic all of them, shed their bark twice 
in the year. The stringy bark (£. obliqua) is one of the most 
striking instances of this. He further informed me t at hearing 
a lecture from Mr. Bicheno on the growth of trees, and the 
statement that a ring of wood was added to the Sawster each 
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