June, 1910. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
W. Gin, | 
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away to corporations, district councils and 
other public bodies, and to farmers and 
others, for the pnrpose of beautifying their 
residences, providing shelter for stock. 
and ornamenting the various towns. A 
fair amount of success has been attained in 
this way, and the benefical results have 
been Mr. Gill 
devoted a considerable amount of time 
considerable. has 
and attention to the consideration of the 
suitability of South Australia for the 
_ growing of pine timber. To day 85 per- 
cent. of the world’s demand is for pine, 
and South Australia is sending out of the 
colony about £200,000, a year to buy pine 
timber, and with the expansion of the fruit 
industry this amount is likely to increase. 
After a series of experiments extending 
over a number of years it has been demon- 
strated beyond all shadow of doubt that 
in the State forests, the Remarkable pine, 
a native of California, can be grown with 
profit, and is admirably suited for box 
lumber, flooring boards and other purposes 
of general utility, At the Wirrabara 
Forest, the Department has undertaken 
the work of case making and in the last 
annual report it is stated—‘A steady 
demand continues for the cases manu- 
factured at the millat Wirrabara Forest, 
with satisfactory results to the revenue. 
The local requirements amounted to 
5,050 cases, a few of which were used for 
butter, but the main bulk for exporting 
apples. Another contract was success- 
fully carried out for supplying the Ren- 
mark Fruit Packing Union with 11,000 
28 lb. raisin boxes, and 10,000 561b. raisin 
boxes, receipt of which was acknowledged 
by a letter from their agents Messrs G. 
Wood, Son & Co., conveying on their 
behalf their appreciation of the highly satis- 
factory manner in which the work was 
carried out, and expressing the desire 
that business relations might be main- 
The Conser- 
vator of Forests states that there are 
thousands of acres in the State suitable 
tained over many years.’ 
for pine growing now carrying inferior 
timber of particularly no value or scrubby 
vegetation, and strongly advocates the 
planting of this land with Remarkable 
pine. Ho says ‘it will pay well, given 
the requisite and time and patience for 
It will pay in revenue but 
it will pay better in the healthy, strong 
men it rears amidst healthy forest con_ 
development. 
ditions, in the increase of the producing 
power of the country, and in assisting to 
prevent the congestion of our population 
in our cities.’ In addition to the attention 
which is being devoted to the growth of 
pine vimber, considerable attention is 
also being devoted to the growth of hard- 
woods, and in view of the increasing 
demands for commerejal timbers, the 
Government will be amply justified in 
increasing the vote to the Forestry 
Department in order that planting ope: 
ations might be extended. 
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