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This species has an extensive range in New South Wales. It is found over 
enormous areas west of the Dividing Range, and also in rocky declivities and 
canons in the southern and northern table-lands. It also occurs in Victoria and 
Queensland. 
Abundant on the reserves and alienated lands bordering on the Snowy River, county of Wellesley. 
—(Forester Benson, Bega.) 
Red or Mountain Pine, Wagra, Upper Murray. Small stunted Black Pine, from a hill near 
Wagra, Murray River. (These specimens belong to C. calcarata.) Soil stiff, red, and sandy.—(Forester 
Taylor, Wagga Wagga.) 
Pine is also to be found in the Killimicat Ranges, between Tumut and Gundagai. A large 
quantity of it, but no trees of any size, and growing on very rough barren country.—(Forester Mecham, 
Tumut.) 
There are probably between 8,000 and 10,000 acres of Black Pine found upon the timber reserves 
in this district. It is found principally in rough, rocky country, on gravelly soil.—(Forester Postlethwaite, 
Grenfell.) 
On shallow soils ; on stony or rocky ridges.—(District Forester Marriott, Dubbo.) 
Mitchell (Tropical Australia , p. 93) made sleepers of C. pyramidalis,14< feet 
long and 2 feet wide, to carry his drays over the Yarran Swamp. 
It is not plentiful; the most common is the Western Pine, but it does not thrive well, owing, I 
believe, to the cold preventing its proper development. It rarely reaches 2 feet in girth, the average size 
of the largest being about 18 inches in circumference. On the eastern side of the Main Range, I have not 
seen any; if there is, it is in small quantities, and in remote places.—(Late Forester Siddins, Armidale.) 
No Cypress Pine is found on the New England table-land, though it comes well upon the western 
slope. Black or Mountain Pine is obtained near Inverell, in which locality there is a large quantity of 
this kind of pine. It grows almost exclusively in the roughest country, in granite or poor white sandy 
soil, and very often forms a scrub of small saplings of from 1 to 5 inches in diameter.—(District Forester 
Stopford, Armidale.) 
It is not easy to define what New England really is. I have attempted to 
define it in my Presidential Address before the Linnean Society of New South Wales 
vol. xxvi, 766 (1901), and the following note from Mr. Stopford is interesting. The 
canons of eastern New England are full of this pine, but it hardly comes on to the 
comparatively flat table-land. 
With reference to the growth of pine on the falls of New England, I always consider that New 
England commences on the south, about Walcha, and extends to Deepwater on the north, at both of which 
places ravines come up; from Tamworth and Apsley Falls on the south, and from Bolivia on the north, the 
same country and conditions prevailing all along the western falls. It is in these places that pine is found, 
but I do not think it is found, or at least can generally be considered to be on the true table-land, at any 
rate, I do not know of it, upon what I would call this class of country. 
