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Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus Sieberiana , F.v.M.). 
One of the most prominent of our mountain trees. It is a straight-gTained, free-working, 
pale-coloui’ed timber for mill wheels, posts, and general coachbuilding purposes. Grows to a height of 
from 60 to 70 feet. 
Grey Gum (Eulcalyptus propinqua, H.D. et J.H.M.). 
A fine forest tree, with a reddish-coloured, hard, close-grained, splendid working timber. Seasons 
well, and is altogether a first-class wood, and is strongly recommended to coachbuilders for a trial, being 
superior to the Red Gums E. tereticornis, Sm., and E. rostrata, Schl. 
White Stringybark (Eucalyptus eugenioides, Sieb.). 
This is a typical forest tree, and one of the commonest of the Stringybarks, and is found on the 
Coast district. The wood is pale-coloured, medium weight, and works, dresses, and seasons well. It is 
very durable in the ground, and should be so in carriage construction, and the bending and transverse 
tests are very satisfactory. 
It should be suitable for heavy dray work and railway carriages and waggons. 
Silver Top Stringybark (Eucalyptus Icevopinea, R.T.B.). 
This tree almost invariably occurs in basaltic formation, more especially the hills, and is a fine 
upstanding tree. 
The timber is hard, pale-coloured, straight-grained, and very durable, and is strongly recommended 
to the consideration of coachbuilders where the orthodox timbers are not procurable. 
It has been confounded with the Red Stringybark (E. macrorrhyncha, F.v.M.) by some botanists, 
but the timbers of the two are quite different, the latter being much inferior. 
It is at least equal, if not superior, to the White Stringybark (E. eugenioides, Sieb.), and is also 
recommended for heavy carriage work of all kinds. 
Slaty Gum (Eucalyptus Dawsoni, R.T.B.). 
One of the finest forest trees in the Rylstone and north of Mudgee district. Tt grows with a 
splendid branchless trunk, the foliage being entirely confined to the head. Its timber is highly valued in 
the locality where the tree grows, and regarded as quite equal in quality to Ironbark, and from which it is 
quite impossible to differentiate when sawn in planks and dressed, and this amplified knowledge is 
supported by scientific tests of samples of standard size. It is a close-grained, hard, heavy, red-coloured, 
timber, and suitable for all kinds of carriage construction work in which Ironbark is utilised. 
Stringybark (Eucalyptus carnea, R.T.B.). 
An average forest tree in height, having a light flesh-coloured timber, but rather inclined to 
develop gum veins. Suitable for heavy carriage work construction. 
White Mahogany (Eucalyptus acmenioides, Schau.). 
A fine forest tree of the Coast district, having a pale-coloured, hard, close, straight-grained, heavy 
timber. Suitable for coachbuilding purposes of the heavy kinds, and should make good framing for 
carriages, as well as shafts, spokes, &c. 
Blue Fig (Elceocarpus grandis , F.v.M.). 
A fine tree, growing in the Northern River scrubs. The timber is much in request in the furniture 
trade, and I see no reason why it should not be used by coachbuilders for panelling, wings, <fcc. It might • 
almost be classified as a white wood having a satin sheen. It is light in weight, easy working, bends well, 
and in this respect supplies the desiderata of some requirements in coachbuilding. 
Negro-headed Beech (Fagus Moorei F.v.M.). 
This is a true Beech ; that is, it belongs to the same botanical family as the English Beech (Fagus), 
and occurs in the North Coast brush forests. There is a species of it Fagus Cunning ha mii) in Tasmania, 
known locally as Red Myrtle. 
