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Narrow-leaved Bark {E. crehra) and Broad-leaved Bark (E. 
siderojMoia).— This timber is of deep red colour and is 
inferior to the white or grey variety. All three of the above 
varieties are used extensively in bridge construction, for 
beams in buildings, and wherever great strength is required, 
also for railway sleepers, posts, and for wagon and carriage 
building. 
Red Ironbark {E. sideroxylon) is the deepest in colour, a 
much softer wood, and the least valuable of the ironbarks; it 
is employed in general building and also for railway sleepers 
and posts. It grows to large dimensions and is rather 
liable to ring shakes. A common defect in all ironbarks is 
the round holes made by the larvae of the wood motb, and 
when these touch the heart of the log decay and rot set in 
rapidly. 
Tallow Wood {E. microcorys) is a canary colour when fresh, 
drying to a pale brown. The least liable to shrink of all 
Australian hardwoods, heavy, dense, close in grain, strong 
and durable, fairly free from gum veins, it planes and 
turns well, though not easily, does not easily split, and is, 
after ironbark, considered the best of the hardwoods of the 
colony. For carriage and wagon building it excels all 
other native hardwoods and is used for this purpose even 
in New Zealand. It is often used for flooring, especially 
for ball-room floors, where its greasy nature, whence the 
name is derived, is an advantage. For decking of bridges 
and wharves it stands first, and it is considered one of the 
best woods in the colony for street paving. A small 
amount was laid in the city of Lincoln, England. 
The flooring of "Wagga-Wagga Bridge, over 600 ft. in 
length, was laid with this timber, and it is considered to 
have a life of thirteen years in such situations. Tallow 
wood is liable to attack from a small insect which bores at 
