May, 1933 The Queensland Naturalist *T 
happiness ? No, often ho uses these powers to avoid the 
■command, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy 
bread.” He is always inclined to concern himself with 
to-morrow, to build barns and lay up in store, is discon- 
tented, and life is to him a burden, unknowingly. . His 
body is ill and his mind is clouded, all because he is violat- 
ingnature’s laws. Mankind is, starving in the midst of 
plenty and does not know how to overcome the many 
ailments that assail him. all because lie forgets that he 
must work in conjunction and in harmony with nature to 
live a long, healthy, happy and contented life. 
When our first parents were in Paradise they had a 
constructive mind and were not afraid to meet their 
Maker at the closing of the day. They were obedient to 
the laws, but when they transgressed, the laws they became 
troubled in their minds and destruction came upon them. 
Man gifted with a free will was the Lord on the earth, and 
to some extent he may claim this superiority now. By 
using his will-power wrongly, even when he is angry or 
hates his neighbour, he is out of harmony ; when he finds 
fault here and there, or even with the good work of 
creation he certainly is not in accord with nature. She 
is kind and rewards well all those that obey her laws. It 
seems the only way to attain a. long, healthy and happy life. 
THE RED CEDAR. 
(By J. Edgar Young.) 
The common Red Cedar (Cedrehi Toona var. aus- 
tralis ), natural order Meliaceae, belongs to a genus occur- 
ring in tropical America, Asia, and Eastern Australia. 
The single Australian species was at one time common in 
the “scrubs” or rain forests, then sometimes called “cedar 
brushes,” along the coastal rivers of Queensland and New 
South Wales, even to south of Sydney. 
It is one of the few Australian deciduous trees. The 
leaves are pinnate and rather large, the flowers in panicles, 
small but fragrant, the seed capsule nearly an inch m 
length. It is, however, difficult to secure seed owing to 
their being usually destroyed by the larvae of the Cedar 
tip moth. 
During a great part of last century the timber-getters 
in addition to procuring pine and beech, went long dis- 
tances searching for the larger Cedar trees (now extremely 
rare), sometimes far up the rivers and amongst the ranges, 
and then went to great labour in getting the logs to market 
by means of bullock teams. 
In many cases logs were abandoned owing to diffi- 
culties of transport being found too great, and in some 
instances these still lie partly decayed/ on the ground. 
Two such large trees lie near the one illustrated, much 
