THE EUCALYPTS. 
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The peppermirits have closely fibrous bark, usually 
grey in colour, with durable timber, and with leaves 
strongly odorous with peppermint scent. Eucalyptus 
piperita and Eucalyptus odorata are peppermints. 
The stringy -barks have a bark which is very fibrous 
and stringy, easily torn from the trunk, and with 
hard firm wood. The common stringy-bark is 
Eucalyptus macrorrhyncha, while the “messmate,” so 
called from its similarity to this one, is Eucalyptus 
obliqua. The “apple box,” Eucalyptus Stuartiana, 
has bark of the “ stringy bark ” type, although it is 
not so pronounced as in the others mentioned, being 
more fiaky. 
The iron-barks have hard, strong, and deeply- 
rugged barks; at the same time some iron-barks have 
a perfectly smooth bark. 
Eucalyptus leucoxylon is commonly known as the 
ironbark; it is a fine tree with fairly large flowers, 
while the variety, rosea, is really handsome, with its 
rose-coloured flowers. West Australia can boast the 
possession of some fine ornamental eucalypts, quite 
a number having red coloured flowers. In Victoria 
there exists only one reddish coloured form, and that 
is this variety rosea. It is a shapely and fairly taU 
tree, quick growing, and well suited for a specimen 
tree, for street trees, or for a decorative tree in 
shrubberies. There are various shades of colour of 
the flowers. The most common one has flowers of a 
glowing rose pink; others are paler, while some — 
and they are more uncommon — are of a rich, deep, 
cerise colour. The tree commences to flower about 
its third year, and the flowering period is of extended 
