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rugged bark and aromatic odour give them a peculiar and 
unmistakable character. 
The Eucalypti of Australia and Tasmania are known in 
Europe for their high reputation as hygienic agents in 
districts infected with malaria, and have been tried on the 
Italian Campagna with satisfactory results. 
The growth of the trees is rapid, E. glohidus, the Tas- 
manian blue gum, having attained a height of 26 ft., with 
a mean circumference of 26 inches in a little over four 
years in Italy. Other trees of eight years' growth attained 
to 50 ft. high and 3 ft. in circumference. Mr. H. N. Draper, 
M.E.I.A., has grown them in the neighbourhood of Dublin 
to a height of 26 ft. with a circumference of 22 inches in 
five years. They appear to survive a temperature which 
does not fall below 23° Fahr., but on one occasion in Italy, 
when the thermometer fell to 20° Fahr., half the plantation 
was destroyed. 
Now that the forest areas of America and the regions 
round the Baltic are being denuded of their best timber — 
and, so far as regards America, we can see within a com- 
paratively short period a dearth in timber supplies from 
that region — it is pleasant to know that we have the 
immense virgin forests of our Australian colonies to fall 
back upon for part of our future supplies, districts in which 
the felling industry can be carried on all the year round, 
where there are no icebound ports, so that the timber can 
always be shipped, and where there is no difficulty in 
obtaining labour as is the case in fever- stricken climates, 
such contingencies as seriously trouble timber importers in 
many of the regions from which our present supplies 
come. 
Little is yet known in the timber market of the timbers 
of Australia, only a few of them having as yet been 
