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brush land near creeks is often not utilised at all under existing circumstances, and 
the land is being utilised with the promise, in many cases, of yielding a fair interest 
for the outlay in (say) thirty or forty years. Planting for posterity, perhaps; but 
forest planting (as distinct from forest conservation) is usually planting for 
posterity. What militates against plantations, as ordinarily carried out, is the heavy 
initial expenditure—expensive fences, heavy, and worse than useless, clearing, and 
costly non-residential supervision. I hope my readers will think over the matter, 
and put in a small experimental patch next season. 
Mr. Breckenridge’s site is by no means perfectly favourable for the 
experiment, the soil being scarcely suitable, and the site too near the sea. On the 
Upper Paterson and Allen and Williams Eivers (Mr. Augustus Rudder tells me) 
there is ample scope on their banks where, with unused rich land, good results 
would attend moderate effort to produce a fine growth of cedar in considerable 
quantity, but it would require more than twenty or thirty years to mature it for 
market. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
PLATE 9. 
Leaflets and Flowers. 
a. Young flower. 
b. Flower. 
a. Calyx. 
b. Petal. 
c. Stamen. 
d. Stigma. 
e. Ovary half immersed in disk. 
f. Pubescent disk. 
c. Stamen, back and front view. 
Plate 10. 
Leaf and Fruit. 
D. Capsule opening in 5 valves, leaving the dissepiments attached to the persistent axis. 
a. Yalve. 
b. Dissepiment. 
c. Seed. 
e. Winged seeds. 
f. Leaf (with usually 7 pairs of leaflets) much reduced in size. 
B 
