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TIMBER 
only, although used for packing cases in connection with 
the fruit trade. The wood is of light brown colour. 
Weight about 53 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Gum Top Stringy Bark {E. hcemastoma) is closer in grain 
than the swamp gum ; it grows to a considerable height, 
but small diameter, the average with a height of 150 ft. 
being not more than 3 to 4 ft. The texture of the wood 
is about a medium between stringy bark and swamp gum ; 
it is largely used and found very satisfactory when seasoned 
for house-building, flooring, and for coachbuilding and 
wheelwrights' work. 
Weight about 48 to 51 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Ironbark {E. sieheriana) is only found in the north east 
of the island and in small quantities. It is used for local 
requirements only and for similar purposes to blue gum 
and stringy bark. 
Weight 48 to 51 lbs. per cubic foot. 
There are at least half a dozen other varieties of 
eucalypti in Tasmania, but those described are the only 
ones likely to come into the foreign market. 
Peppermint {E. amygdaUua) produces a good, durable 
timber, much used for fencing posts, and makes excellent 
shingles for roofs. It is only found in small quantities. 
Weight 39 lbs. per cubic foot. 
Blackwood (Acacia melaiioxtjlon), a tree of 60 to 80 ft. 
high with a diameter of 3 to 6 ft., is the most valuable of 
the fine-grained woods of Tasmania. It is the "Black 
Sally " of Western New South Wales and the hickory of 
the southern part of that colony. It is a close, straight 
grained timber of dark brown or walnut colour, varying 
in shade and somewhat resembling cedar : the sapwood is 
