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GROUP IV. E. FASTIGATA. E. GLOBULUS. 
Similar specimens may be seen in a reserve just below the Railway Station at 
Cambridge. On private property near Hinuera there were, some years ago, 
several specimens one of which had reached a total height of 154ft., a clean 
millable bole of over 70ft., and a diameter at breast height of 3ft. The species 
is represented in many other North Island localities, of which the following may 
be selected for mention:—AVhakarewarewa; “Puketiti”, near Tokomaru Bay; Te 
Mata”, near Havelock North; and “Marumarunui”, near Opunake. In the South 
Island several large trees have been noted in Charteris Bay near Lyttelton and 
a few vigorous saplings as far south as Heriot in Otago. Young seedlings are 
sensitive to frost, but the wide range of existing large trees proves that this 
difficulty can be overcome. 
E. fastigata was formerly included as a variety under E. regnans ; but its 
more branchy habit of growth, its persistent fibrous bark extending to upper stem 
and branches, and the rising or domed rim of its fruit distinguish it from that 
species and entitle it to separate specific rank. Seed should be obtained from our 
own best acclimatized trees. 
48. E. GLOBULUS Labillardiere. 
NATURAL HABITAT, DESCRIPTION, AND USES. 
This is one of the species distributed by nature on both sides of Bass Strait. 
It has attained its largest dimensions and won its highest honours for quality of 
timber in south-eastern Tasmania. The blue-green colour and angular stems of 
the young plant, the tall smooth bole and dark green pendent leaves of the adult 
tree, the warty lid of the bud, and the ripe seed-cup with its ridged and creased 
exterior, have been made so familiar to people in New Zealand by exotic 
specimens that there is no need to give a detailed description of the tree. it is 
very important to remark, however, that the species exists m two oims wi 
respect to the manner in which it produces its flowers. In the one form e 
flowers are single or solitary and the ripe seed-cup lm. or more in laterai diameter 
In the other form the flowers are normally three on the one stalk and the ripe 
seed-cup only about %in. in diameter. We in ^\ew Zealand understand that 
single-flowered form is identical with the “blue gum of south-eastern Tasmania, 
and that the three-flowered form belongs to the mainland. Most of our ±N ew 
Zealand specimens are single-flowered; and where three-flowered trees hare been 
noted they have been regarded as inferior in both late of gro ( i ‘ y 
timber. Planters are advised to propagate only from best smgle-flowered trees. 
CULTIVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. 
Although endowed with wonderful vitality, E. globulus is really very exacting 
withfespectto both climate and soil. Its natural optimum is m a cool part o 
Tasmania not very much above sea level, the latitude being about the same as that 
of^Christclmrch Where the species exists in a somewhat varied form on the 
Australian mainland it has found climatic compensate ^ 
‘S, SL’iiES. it in strongly re.i.t.nt h* Again, « 
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