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hereabout, floating in water soon after being cut. It is easily- 
cut by saw, but shrinks very much in drying. It is used for 
weatherboards, and sometimes for making parts of drays and 
carts. Also used for masts, spars, and planks of vessels. 
These are the principal forest trees that are in common use 
amongst the colonists. There are the oaks and wattles that 
exist as underwood throughout the forest country embraced in 
this paper. The oaks are used for. axe, pick, and hammer 
handles, and are good firewood. The wattles in some places are 
stripped of their bark for tanning purposes, but where the grass 
is eaten down, and no strong bush fires occur, the wattles grow 
up and destroy the grass. 
There are several gums which I have not mentioned, because 
they have no peculiarities worth mentioning. Some of them are 
worthless so far as timber is concerned. 
Several of the eucalypti shed their seed about the end of 
November or beginning of December. 
The Bunya Bunya is ripe about the end of January. 
The Dandathu and Moreton Bay pine shed their seed about 
the end of December. 
Cypress pine in November. 
lied cedar seeds ripen about end of January. 
Beech seeds are ripe in January. 
The speaker also showed samples of the timbers described, 
in explanation of his remarks, and on the conclusion of the 
paper, a motion that it be printed in the transactions of the 
Society was put and carried. 
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By Authority : James C. Beal, Government Printer, William street, Brisbane. 
