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It is sparingly distributed in the Sydney district (I have no specimens), and 
Mr. E. Chesl records a specimen between Peakhurst and Bankstown, a little south of 
Sydney, 11 feet in circumference r.t 4 ft. C in. from the ground (see photo). 
Jenolan Caves, Bathurst, Wellington, Nyngan, Cobar, Coonabarabran, Wee Waa, 
Goulburn River, Scone,' Walcha, Urunga, Gunnedah, Mungindi. 
There are few plants having a wider range over this State (New South Wales), although it rarely 
grows in clusters but as isolated trees. It is found over the whole of the area described in these papers, 
and is dotted nearly all along the coastal .districts. It grows on various geological formations, but if it 
shows any partiality it is first for limestone and then igneous over slate and sandstone. Near Parramatta, 
at the Pennant Hills quarry, it is found on basalt, while at Newcastle and West Dapto it grows on Permo- 
Carboniferous formation. At Tillowrie, near Milton, it may bo found in limited quantities on an igneous 
rock extending only a short distance among the sandstone. . . . (R. H. Cambago, loe. cit,) 
Queensland. Springsure, Stewart River (runs into Princess Charlotte Bay), 
Cape York. 
Northern Territory. A few localities are cited in " Flora of the Northern Terri- 
tory " (Ewart and Davies). 
Propagation. The following earnest plea for the propagation of the Kurrajong 
I take from the Sydney Morning Herald of 10th February, 1908. 
In this country in time of drought, or even in the ordinary summer season, there is no more uninviting 
or desolate spectacle than a township set in the- great open spaces where the sun has full play, and 
unprotected by trees of any kind. To properly understand the difference trees may make to the comfort of 
life in an inland community, one has to live for a time in a town where the natural timber has been destroyed 
and no attempt made to replace it by culture. It is common enough to hear certain towns spoken of aa 
" very pretty," and " nice places to live in." If the matter is inquired into it will be found that the only 
thing which differentiates these particular towns from hundreds of others having no such celebrity, is the 
systematic culture of street trees. Without its street trees Wagga, for instance, would be nothing but 
a garish, heat-generating, and unlovely pile of desolation in the grip of a severe summer, and a place of 
depression for the lover of beauty and brightness at any other period of the year. But the foresight of the 
men who have guided the destinies of the community civically has served to overcome Nature, and even 
the lack of anything in the way of an ideal or a purpose in the building of the town. To a man who loves 
his country, and has a genuine regard for the preservation of " local colour " and the things which are 
truly and typically Australian, there is one characteristic feature of the tree-planting of Wagga which 
which pleasantly differentiates it from the great majority of the inland communities in any part of the 
Commonwealth. In Italy, South Africa, and other countries, the cultivation of the Australian eucalyptus 
has become one of the new notes of the landscape. Here the gum which is always beautiful in its normal 
condition, and when not unduly wrinkled and gnarled by the ravages of age is scorned, the lovely kurra- 
jong treated with indifference, and the fashion is to cultivate imported trees. For obvious reasons the 
gum is not suitable for street purposes, but this cannot be said of the kurrajong, which is absolutely the 
best and most beautiful, as it is the most valuable, of the vegetation that is peculiar to the country which 
suffers from periodical droughts. Just as beneficent Nature seems to have provided the camel and the 
date palm for the desert, so the kurrajong appears to have been specially designed for the uses and needs 
of animal life in the great arid stretches of country which occupy such a large portion of the map of the 
Commonwealth. The kurrajong will grow and thrive anywhere. No soil can be too impoverished ; no 
region too dry and inhospitable for it. When the whole of the surrounding country has wilted and withered, 
when the last vestige of herbage has passed into the impalpable elements of the atmosphere, and the earth is 
rent and blistered by the pressure of a prolonged drought, the kurrajong may be seen flourishing. In 
form and colour, the qualities which constitute beauty, the kurrajong is not surpassed, if equalled, by 
any of the trees to be met with in this country ; and, what is in the practical sense of vastly more impor- 
tance, it possesses fine fodder properties. In some of the great droughts of the past, herds of cattle would 
have been decimated but for the bounteous supply of kurrajong trees in some parts of the country. And 
