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1867. The tree attains a height of fully 100 feet. The supply for our 
local wants falls already short, and cannot be obtained from Tasmania, 
where the tree does not naturally exist. 
Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, Cunn. 
Iron Bark tree. It attains a height of 100 feet, and supplies a 
valuable timber, possessing great strength and hardness; it is much 
prized for its durability by carpenters, ship-builders, &c. It is largely 
employed by' waggon-builders for wheels, poles, &c.; by ship-builders 
for top sides, tree nails, the rudder (stock), belaying pins and other 
purposes ; it is also used by turners lor rough work. This is considered 
the strongest wood in our colony. It is much recommended for railway 
sleepers, and extensively used in underground mining work. 
Exeaecaria sebifera, T. M. ( Stillingia lebifcra , Mich.) 
The tallow tree of China and Japan. The fatty coating of the seeds 
yield the vegetable tallow. The wood is bo hard and dense as to be 
used for printing blocks; the leaves furnish a black dye. The tree 
endures the night frosts of our open lowlands, though its foliage suffers. 
Fagus Cunningham!, Hooker. 
The Victorian and Tasmanian Beech. A magnificent evergreen tree, 
attaining colossal dimensions, and only living in cool damp rich forest 
valleys, not rarely 200 feet high. Tho wood much used by carpenters 
and other artisaus’, the myrtlewood of tho trade. It requires to be 
ascertained by actual tests in tho forests, whether the allied tall ever¬ 
green Hew Zealand Beeches possess any advantage over ours for forest 
culture, they are: Fagus ifenzicsii, Hooker, the Bed Birch of the 
colonists; Fagus fusca, Hook., the Black Biich ; Fagus Solandri, Hook, 
the White Birch. A magnificent beech, Fagus Moorei, F. von Muell. 
occurs in New England. 
Fagus silvatioa, L. 
The deciduous beech of Britain, of most other parts of Europe, and 
extra tropical Asia, and as Fagus ferruginea, Ait. ilia particular variety, 
extending through North America. The trunk has been measured in 
height i 18 feet, the head 850 feet in diameter; the wood is hard, exten¬ 
sively used by’ joiners and ship-builders. An allied Beech, Fagus 
Sieboldii, End!., occurs in Japan. All these could here be grown to 
advantage only in our springy mountain forests. 
Ficus Syoamorus, L. 
The Sycomore Fig tree of the Orient, copiously planted along tho road 
sides of Egy r pt. The shady crown extends to a width of 120 feet. 
Though introduced, we have as yet no local means of raising this tree 
in quantity, and must therefore rely on fresh importations of cuttings 
or more particularly seeds. 
Ficus macrophylla, Desfont. 
The Moreton Bay Fig-tree, which is indigenous through a groat part 
of East Australia. Perhaps thegraudest of our avenue trees, and among 
tho very best to be planted, although in poor dry soil its growth is slow. 
In our latitudes it is quite hardy in the lowland. 'J he foliage may 
occasionally be injured by grasshoppers. 
Fraxinus Americana, L* 
The White Ash of North America. A large tree, 80 feet high, which 
delighls in humid forests. Timber valuable, better resisting extreme 
heat than the common Ash. The Red Ash (Fraxinuspubesetns, Lam.), 
the Green Ash (F. viridis, Michx.), the Black Ash ( F. sambucifalia, 
Lam.), and the Carolina Ash ( F. platgcarpa, Michx.), are of smaller 
size, 
