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The Bunya Bunya (Araucaria Bid willii) maybe said to stand 
out first, being a noble tree and producing an edible nut. The 
farthest indigenous tree south that I know is one at the north 
end of the Caboolture Bridge. # About twenty miles farther 
north is where they begin to grow in numbers, namely, near 
Melum. From there to Coorooey, along the Blackall Range, 
and on the eastern side thereof, they grow in large numbers. 
They grow only in scrubs. On the northern branch of the 
Maroochy River the Moreton Bay pine and bunya are growing 
together. The bunya tree is prohibited by G-overnment from 
being cut by timber- getters. It grows rapidly in favourable 
situations, as is to be seen in the Botanic Gardens. George 
Raff:, Esq., had one cut down at New Farm which had been 
planted about twenty years. Part of it was cut at my mill. 
The length of the part cut was 12 feet, and diameter at small 
end was 16 inches. 
The Dundathu pine (Dammara robusta) is a large tree in 
suitable places. The largest I have seen grew on a hill to the 
south of Double Island Point, and about two miles from the sea. 
They grew in a valley between sand hills. Several of these 
were seven feet in diameter. The southern limit of this pine 
tree is about Coorooey (lat. 26° 20'), a little north of Maroochy 
River. It extends north to the Kolan River, and I am informed 
it grows on the ranges to the west of Cardwell, also in Trinity 
Bay. Dry sandy ground, with plenty of vegetable matter and 
plenty of rain, seems to suit this tree best, and only in such 
places do large trees grow. The specimens of this tree in the 
Botanic Gardens do not appear to thrive well. The ground is 
too clayey for them. This tree ought to be cultivated. It is 
our most valuable pine, as it is easily worked with either saw, 
plane, or chisel. It is used for making doors, sashes, mouldings, 
and other joiners’ work In Sydney it is being extensively used 
for these purposes in the place of cedar. It grows very rapidly 
in suitable places. 
Moreton Bay Pine (Araucaria Cunninghamii) ; native name, 
Brisbane, Cumburtu, Wide Bay, Coonam. — This useful tree 
grows in scrubs, over a large extent of country. It grows on 
the Richmond River, in New South Wales, in the 29th degree 
of latitude, up to Cardwell, in the 18th degree of latitude, and 
over the intervening country. It grows in a great variety of 
soils ; some on sand, as at Tincan Bay ; on the Brisbane slate, 
as at the upper part of the North and South Pine Rivers, 
Ithaca Creek, and Enoggera Creek ; on the older Devonian slate, 
as at Moggill Creek ; and on basalt covering coal shale, as at 
the Rosewood Scrub to the west of Ipswich. Where it has a 
* Thirty-seyen years ago this tree was seen by Mr. J. Petrie, and was then 
about a foot in diameter. It is now 3 feet 5 inches, showing a growth of 
nearly $ of an inch per year. 
