TIMBEES OF VICTORIA 
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Messmate has the same botanical name as the Stringy 
Bark of Tasmania {E. ohliqua) and furnishes good and 
durable building material. 
Grey Box (E. liemipliloia) is a similar wood to that of the 
same name in New South Wales ; it is of a pale brown or 
grey colour with inlocked grain, heavy, hard, and durable. 
Both it and the timbers mentioned above are much used 
for railway sleepers, especially grey box, red ironbark, and 
red gum ; the latter has a life of from eighteen to thirty 
years in the track. 
The above, and Stringy Bark, to a small extent, are also 
used for telegraph poles ; in each case the bases for 5 to 6 ft. 
up being charred and coated with a mixture of gas tar, 
Stockholm tar, and slaked lime. 
Balrnsdale Grey Box {Eucalyptus hosistoana), a tree which 
attains a height of 100 to 150 ft., produces a very valuable 
and durable piling timber for wharves and jetties and may 
be obtained in lengths of 60 or 70 ft. ; it is also used for 
railway wagon frames, fencing posts, spokes and felloes of 
wheels, and for sleepers. 
Yellow Stringy Bark (E. mnelleriana) is employed for the 
same purposes as Bairnsdale Grey Box. 
Yellow Box {E. melliodora) is found in scattered belts 
over the colony ; it is a fairly durable timber with inlocked 
grain. Used for piling and beams. 
BlackMtt {E. amygdalina regnans) is the tallest tree of 
the Victorian forests, attaining a height of over 300 ft. It 
is a different wood to the blackbutt of East Gippsland, 
Victoria, which is the same as the New South Wales variety, 
and it differs also from the Western Australian blackbutt 
