61 
County. 
Fitzroy 
n 
19 
Gresham 
n 
19 
Gough 
Raleigh 
11 
11 
11 
11 
Rous ... 
11 • * • 
11 • • • 
11 
Sandon 
Reserve. 
354\ 
19,418 \ 
... 20,667 
1,608 
6,370 
6,179 l 
1,433 f 
... 14,641 
... 34,088 
... 34,089 
... 34,090 
... 34,091/ 
... 33,199 
4,768 
Remarks. 
On some of these reserves there is a fairly large amount 
of matured cedar in patches ; also, a large quantity of 
young growth, well distributed. In most instances 
the matured cedar is located in rough and broken 
gullies or gorges ; large quantities are now to be found 
in the watershed of the Macleay and Nambucca Rivers. 
Contains matured and young cedar. 
Contains matured and young cedar, in small quantities, in 
very rough localities. 
Scattered cedar, mostly young. 
Propagation. —Red cedar grows most vigorously in tlie rich, moist, 
alluvial flats and sloping ground of our Northern Coast districts, particularly so on 
the hanks of creeks on the eastern slopes of the ranges, where the greatest shelter 
from the prevailing winds and shade are obtainable. Young plants may he 
successfully transplanted* in such localities during the winter, at which season 
at least 90 per cent, of the trees planted will survive, and grow at a rate from 3 to 
5 feet annually. The cedar flourishes best when planted in small open places in 
existing forests, where there is room for the trees to mature, and they obtain the 
most shade, and are better protected from the winds and the frosts than if planted 
in open ground. Too much air and light is fatal to them. The brush plants must 
be allowed to grow up with them, care being obviously taken that they do not 
smother the young cedar plants. 
Seeds are rarely produced on cedar trees growing in dense forests ; hut trees, if 
planted in rich and moderately moist soil in open places, will annually produce 
seed after they have attained the age of 6 to 8 years. If the seeds he fresh and 
sound they readily germinate, hut they are very liable to deterioration, as has been 
already stated. 
As an instance, however, of cedar seeds retaining their vitality for a 
considerable period, Mr. Forester Brown, of Port Macquarie, relates, on the 
authority of Mr. Donkin, that some land at Kimbriki, Manning River, was cleared. 
No cedar was then on it, no cedar trees near. There had been no floods for years 
previously, yet twelve months afterwards numbers of young cedars sprang up. 
* Mr. Gamble says : “ Seedlings are easily raised, but difficult to transplant. The roots are surface-feeders, so that 
it ought not to be grown on the edges of fields.” These remarks refer to the Indian tree, but they mainly apply to our 
red cedar. 
