THE PRINCIPAL TIMBER TREES 
READILY ELIGIBLE FOR 
VICTORIAN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE, 
with indications of their native countries and some of their 
technologic uses. 
AN ENUMERATION OFFERED BY 
FERD. VON MUELLER, 
C.M.G., M.D., PU.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.R.G.8., C.M.Z.S., 
Commander of the Order of St. Jago, Vice-President of the 
Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. 
This enumeration originated in a desire of the writer to place 
before his fellow colonists a succinct list of those trees which, in our 
geographic latitudes, can be grown to advantage. Calls for such 
information arose gradually in the department of the Botanic 
Garden of Melbourne, not merely because it impressed itself more 
and more on the mind of every thoughtful settler, that the wanton 
waste of the native forests should be checked, but that also largely 
should be added to our timber riches by means of copious and 
multifarious introductions from abroad, and that for these introductions 
the widest possible scope should be allowed. Nevertheless this list 
is far from claiming completeness, cither as a specific index, or as a 
series of notes on the principal technologic applicability of the trees 
most accessible. Indeed it may be regarded simply as a precursor 
of larger essays, such as the intended forest administration will 
gradually call forth. Meanwhile, however, this brief explanatory 
catalogue may facilitate locally that information, which hitherto was 
afforded by the authors correspondence chiefly. 
It seemed beyond the scope of this writing to tabulate the trees 
here enumerated, in reference to climatic regions. The inhabitant 
of colder and moistcr mountains in this colony, or the settler in the 
hotter and more arid tracts of country, can readily foresee from the 
brief geographic notes given with each tree, which kind should be 
chosen for the spot, selected by him for wood-culture; but if doubts 
in this respect should arise, the needful advice will readily be offered 
by the writer. 
Though this list was originally prepared and alluded to as an 
appendage to a lecture* recently delivered at the Melbourne Industrial 
Museum, I was honored by my colleagues of the Council of the 
Acclimatisation Society in their giving publicity to this document 
along with their last annual report, the Society being quite as anxious 
* The Application of Pbytology to the Industrial Purposes of Life. 
