| 44 KAURI, THE WORLD'S LARGEST TIMBER-TREE. 
was 11 ft. log-diameter by 270 ft. total height. es ih sf of suing 
represented the base of the log, excluding the great bu ge ri Pee aees 
The recorded diameters of most of the big Australian o1 mer ican trees 
mean very little as regards the size of the log of timber furnished by the 
tree. That is well shown at page 48, where one of the big Austr alian 
trees is being taped. In my measurements of the Australian trees [ 
found the diameter of the log, taken above the root-bulge, was generally 
a good deal less, often only half, of what is commonly entered as the base 
of the tree. ~ re. 
ges best account of the big Eucalypts of Australia is that by 
Dr.* J. H. Maiden, the Government Botanist of New South Wales, pub- 
lished in the Sydney Morning Herald, and in the Indian Forester, 1904, 
It tells how exaggerated are some of the accounts published of the giant 
Gums of Australia, with heights taken perhaps with two bits of sticks, 
or with girths taken on the ground or a foot or two above it! Such a 
girth speaks more about the roots than about the true basal diameter of 
the shaft of timber. | 
Mr. Stanley Dobson, who spent much time trying to get at the 
truth in regard to these big trees, writing to the Royal Society of Tas- 
mania, believed that the highest Eucalypt found by a Government 
Surveyor was near Neerim, in Gippsland, and was 325 ft. total height. 
Ti had a diameter of 18 ft, at 6ft. above the ground. Two other 
giant Gums of about the same height are quoted. These trees are 
Mountain-ash (Hucalyptus regnans). In 1886 Mr. Perrin, then Conser- 
vator of Forests, Tasmania, gaye detailed measurements of a fallen tree 
that he measured near Geeyeston (Huc. globulus) that had 250 ft. of 
clean bole and a total height (estimated) of 330 ft. At &ft. above the 
ground the diameter was about 13 ft. 
In New South Wales the biggest Eucalypt I measured was a Fue. 
saligna (locally *‘ Blue-gum’’) 7 ft. 3 in. diameter and 285 ft. high. In 
Western Australia the largest authentic Karri trees I heard of were 12 ft. 
In diameter and 300 ft, total height. ‘The largest I measured was 11 ft. 
in diameter, 93 ft. bole. and 270 ft. total height. This I called ‘“ The 
Western Monarch ’’ because it was the same diameter as the champion 
largest Podocarpus tree in South Africa, known as ‘‘ The Eastern 
Monarch.’” There is the evidence of a photo I have seen that ‘‘ King 
Karri,’’ the reputed largest Karri ever known in Westralia, was 372 ft. 
igh. ‘* King Karri i eventually blew down, and when cut up yielded 
me na ff of sawn timber. In the round the log was cubed at 4,500 
My practice in measuring basal diameters is to 
the ground the diameter of the sha 
This leaves the basal bulge out of 
take at 5 ft. above 
ft of timber as estimated by eye. 
account, but, of course, includes the 
real taper and shape of the shaft of timber. It is the dimension that 
would be used in measuring the timber-content. - me 5 
Hucaly ptus jacksoniz (‘* Red Tingle-tingle’’) is a new species of 
Euealypt in Western Australia reputed to he even taller than ave nnd 
to attain a height of some 400 ft. Tt js confined, says the C i at 
(Mr. Lane Poole), to a small area en veggie tie 2 
é some six miles by fifteen miles alone 
the Franklin River, about forty miles to the west of Albany | : 

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