TIMBEES OF NEW SOUTH WALES 
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Muskwood {Olearia argopliylla) is made into beautiful 
veneers, but requires long and careful seasoning, else it 
warps and twists badly. It is found also in Tasmania and 
Victoria, 
Weight about 40 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Native Teak {Flindersia hennettiana) is a large tree ; the 
timber is hard, heavy, and difficult to work, but durable in 
and out of the ground. It is used for railway and other 
buildings and for ceilings, flooring, lining boards, etc. 
Some small parcels have recently been sent to Great 
Britain. Pale yellow in colour and often handsome grain. 
Weight 63 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Blueberry Ash or Pigeon Ash, sometimes called mountain 
ash and sometimes whitewood, is good for bedroom furni- 
ture, staves, oars, etc., and makes good handles and poles. 
The sapwood is white, the heartwood of darker colour. 
Weight about 55 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Red Ash (Alpliitonia excelsa) is not much used, but is 
worth noting because of the peculiarities in its colouring. 
When a log is first cut it resembles ordinary ash in colour, 
and for some time no change is perceptible ; after a time 
it gradually assumes a reddish colour, which deepens during 
two or three years, at the end of which time it has assumed 
a fiery red appearance. This colouration is superficial and 
may be removed by the plane, but the same depth of tint 
returns with time. It is very ornamental. 
Weight, thoroughly dry, 53 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Coachwood {Ceratopetalam apetalum), one of the Saxifragese, 
is a light, soft, close-grained, tough timber, much used in the 
colony for coachbuilding, and is also said to make good 
