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Habitat.— The following localities are quoted in the “ Flora Australiensis — 
Queensland. —Port Bowen (It. Brown); Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, extending 80 miles inland, 
and northward to latitude 14 degrees (A. Cunningham, Leichhardt) ; Rockhampton (Herb. F. Mueller): 
Burdekin River ( Fitzalan ), known as the “ Moreton Bay Pine.” 
Mew South Wales. —Hastings and Clarence Rivers (Beckler). 
It occurs from the high country north of the Hastings River, along the 
ranges which skirt the coast, and also in brush land on the Clarence, Richmond, 
&c., and so on into Queensland. The Glenfernie Forest Reserve, between Grafton 
and Armidale, contains the most southern mill which cuts up this timber. 
Colonial Pine is no exception to the very general rule that the timber 
obtained from high lands is far superior to that obtained from the low-lying lands 
of the coast. As regards the range of this tree, the Hon. W. Pettigrew, M.L.C., 
formerly a timber-merchant, says :— 
This useful tree grows in scrubs over a large extent of country. It grows up to Cardwell, in 
Queensland, in the 18th degree of latitude. It grows in a great variety of soils—some on sand, as at 
Tin-can Bay ; on the Brisbane slate, as at the upper part of the North and South Pine Rivers, Ithaca 
Creek, and Enoggera Creek ; on the older Devonian slate, as at Moggill Creek ; and on basalt covering 
coal-shale, as at the Rosewood Scrub to the west of Ipswich. When this Pine grows on anything like 
level ground, farmers know they can grow maize, sugar-cane, &c., and, therefore, many pine-scrubs are 
cleared for cultivation, to the injury of the country from the timber-merchant’s point of view. 
The Catalogue of the Queensland Forestry Museum (1904) says : — 
Abundant in many of our coastal scrubs from the Macpherson Range in the south to Gladstone; 
also in the Ipswich, Toowoomba, Warwick, Nanango, Mackav, and Bowen districts. 
Mr. Pv. Kaleski, speaking.of the Dorrigo, where lie once resided, says :— 
The main belt of Pine starts S.W. on Meinard’s Plain, near top of the mountain, and thence runs 
with a few breaks to the N.E. to Paddy’s Plain towards Grafton. Drawing weight dry is 500 feet to 
the ton. Unlike the rest of the scrub timbers, which have no tap-root and whose roots feed within a 
couple of inches of the top, with a spread as big as their heads, the Pine sends down a deep tap root, and 
also its other roots go down like hardwoods. 
It lias been found to occur in New Guinea, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. 
Propagation. —From seed, which, however, soon loses its germinating 
power, and in order that it may travel long distances safely, it is safest to either 
sow it in Wardian cases, or to pack it in charcoal. It is cultivated for ornamental 
purposes, and Air. Walter Hill thus enthusiastically speaks of it“ This majestic 
tree is, without exception, the most ornamental and useful tree in Queensland. Its 
beautiful regular pyramidical form, and the sombre green of its awl-shaped foliage, 
command general admiration.” 
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It is, indeed, in my view, handsomer than the Norfolk Island Pine (A. 
excelsci), which is much more cultivated, but it does not appear to be so hardy 
under cultivation as that species. 
See p. 903 of my article on Conifers in the Agricultural Gazette of N.S. TP., 
quoted below. 
