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INDEX. 
Experimental plantations, 84 
Felling of timber trees, 104 
Fire prevention and control, 102 
Flowers of Eucalyptus trees, 11 
Foliage (juvenile, intermediate, and adult), 7-10 
Forest conditions, 97 
Forest regions of Australia, 17 
Frost, Effects of, 19 
Fruit (meaning of term in Botany), 11 
Fruits of the Eucalypts (their sizes and shapes), 
11 . 
Glossary, xi. 
Plantations, Experimental, 84 
Planting, see Sowing, 88 
Planting, Pure and Mixed, 98 
Plates, The Botanical, 22 
Potting of seedlings, 92 
Preservative treatment of timber, 107 
Propagation, Methods of, 91-94 
Pruning, 96 
Puddling, 93 
Rainfall, see under Climatic Conditions, 16-22 
Regeneration, Natural, 101 
Research, J. H. Maiden’s method of, 15 
Research, Practical Application of, 21 
Hardwoods and softwoods. Distinction between, 
106 
Heartwood, see Sapwood, 12 
Honey-yielding species of Eucalyptus, 123 
Insect enemies and friends of the Eucalypts, 
116-119 
Ironbark timbers, 41 
Kindred of the Eucalypts, 124-126 
Kino, Nature of and variations in, 13 
Maturity of a timber tree, 103 
Measurement of trees and logs, 127-128 
Melaleuca, 126 
Method of research in Critical Revision and 
Forest Flora, 15 
Mossing of plants, 92 
Names of Eucalyptus trees. Common, 111-114 
» ,, „ Botanical, 114-115 
Nurse plants, 94 
Oils extracted from Eucalyptus foliage, 13 
Sapwood and heartwood, Distinction between, 12 
Sawing of logs into boards and scantling, 105 
Seasoning of timber, 105-107 
Seed-cup (explanation of term), 11-12 
Size and maturity of timber trees, 103 
Softwoods, see Hardwoods, 106 
Sowing and planting, 88 
Spacing, pruning, and thinning, 96-97 
Species, see Eucalyptus 
Splitting of logs, 104 
Stump-sprouts or “suckers,” 8 
Syncarpia, 125 
Temperature in relation to tree culture, 19 
Thinning, see Spacing, 96-97 
Transplanting, 90 
Tristania, 124 
Winds, Saline, 20 
Wood, Texture and colour of, 12 
Workers and writers on the Genus Eucalyptus, 
4 
Wrenching of nursery plants, 93 
Wrong distribution of species, 18 
