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ware generally. It is useful for screws of handscrews, for making gauges, rails, &c., 
of chairs, and for clean turnery. Other uses are for bullock-yokes, mauls, and 
tool-handles. The Yarra (Victoria) blacks are said to have made boomerangs of it. 
Its chief drawback is its tendency to warp in drying, hence it is often used in 
veneers. It makes excellent fuel. It is often used, unsawn, for rafters. 
Mr. District Forester Rotton, of Nowra, says it is 
used for shingles and bullock yokes. Settlers sometimes use this timber for rough furniture such as tables 
and stools. It is also used for pick and hammer handles ; is excellent fuel, and is often used by bakers, as 
it sends out great heat and leaves little ash. 
Exudation. —An astringent gum has been met with in this species, but its 
nature has not been carefully inquired into. It is probably analogous in composition 
to the dried astringent saps which have been found exuding in small quantities 
from the barks of many of our native trees. 
Size. —It is not a large tree. It rarely attains a larger size than a height of 
40 feet, and a stem-diameter of 1^ to 2 feet. 
Habitat.— It occurs in all the States except Western Australia. It is not 
found in the centre of Australia; but, although its natural habitat is the coast and 
coast mountain ranges, on poor, rocky soil, it is found in mountainous country many 
miles west of Sydney. 
It is very common in Tasmania. It is found all over Victoria except in the 
north-west. 
In South Australia Prof. Tate gives the range as south of the Murray Desert, 
embracing the 90-mile Desert and the Tatinra. 
It is found from south to the extreme north of Queensland. 
In Xew South Wales it is very widely diffused. In the coast districts it is 
found from the Victorian to the Queensland border. It is common in the table¬ 
lands from end to end of the State. Its westerly range appears to be the Castlereagli 
lliver. 
A Plea for the Cultivation of She-Oaks. 
I would draw attention to the merits of this tree as a substitute for the 
everlasting Pinus insicjnis of California which seems to be grown immoderately in 
Xew South Wales. C. suberosa grows in the poorest soil, provided it be stony and 
well-drained. It has a pine-like habit and is even more graceful than most pines, 
does not attain a very large size, and forms a copse or an avenue which has a very 
pleasing appearance. 
I go further, and say that if Australians would only take it into their heads 
to grow their She-Oaks (and we have species for salt-water, fresh-water, for arid 
situations, and sterile places) they would be charmed at the result. A well-grown 
She-Oak is one of the most beautiful trees in Australia, and affords a pleasing contrast 
