Tasmanian forestry : timber products and sawmilling industry, a description of timber trees indigenous to Tasmania, their commercial value and process of manufacture, with methods adopted by the government to foster the industry . ine, Celery-top, or Beech or Myrtle, which, with numerous others of secondary value commercially, comprise a list of some 35 speciesof timber trees. The family of Eucalypts are the trees on which the sawmilleris chiefly dependent to produce hardwood timber in quantity suffi-cient to meet his requirements and the demands of the industrygenerally ; whilst the timbers o
Tasmanian forestry : timber products and sawmilling industry, a description of timber trees indigenous to Tasmania, their commercial value and process of manufacture, with methods adopted by the government to foster the industry . ine, Celery-top, or Beech or Myrtle, which, with numerous others of secondary value commercially, comprise a list of some 35 speciesof timber trees. The family of Eucalypts are the trees on which the sawmilleris chiefly dependent to produce hardwood timber in quantity suffi-cient to meet his requirements and the demands of the industrygenerally ; whilst the timbers of limited supply, such as Blackwood,King William Pine, and others above referred to, are valuabletimbers, and fully recognised as such by those who have testedtheir uses in various ways. Much could be written regarding the by-products obtainablefrom Tasmanian forest trees (^the oil of the Eucalyptus rilohnhinhas now a wide-v/orld reputation for medicinal and other purposes)which it is not possible here to enlarge upon. Suffice it to say,that in these days of scientific research the time is not far distantwhen much that is now destroyed as worthless in the Tasmanianforest will be utilised for many purposes now unthought TI3IBER TREES. DESCRIPTION OF THEIK GENERAL APPEARANCEAND COMMERCIAL VALUE. Section BLUE GUM [Eiirah/ptv.^ fflobuh,.<). (A tree which must not be confounded with some of those similarlynamed growing in the mainland States.)This valuable tree, which is almost entirely coniined to the south-eastern portion of the island, in proximity to the coast, ha^ doubtsless derived its name from the bluish-grey appearance of the wholeplant in the sarly stages of its growth, caused by a waxj- bloom,which always exists on the young Blue Gum. During this stagethe leaves are sessile and opposite, in pairs, varying on differentplants from 4 to 8 inches in length, and 2 to 4 inches inbreadth. From the junction of the leaves on the stem, ridgesare observed runnin
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