STATE FORESTS DEPARTMENT (PARTICULARS AS REGARDS TREES PLANTED BY THE).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1907 Session I, C-01c

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1907. NEW ZEALAND.

STATE FORESTS DEPARTMENT (PARTICULARS AS REGARDS TREES PLANTED BY THE).

Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated the 7th August, 1907. Ordered, " That there be laid before this House a return showing (1) the number of trees of each kind planted by the State Forests Department; (2) the ages of the trees which have been plant°d ; (3) the uses for which the different kinds of trees are suitable ; (4) the approximate dates when the trees will be fit for milling."—(Mr. Ell.)

Trees planted by the State Forests Department.

Number of Trees of each Kind planted. The Ages of the Trees that have been planted. The Uses for which the different Kinds of Trees are suitable. Name of Tree. acacia melanoxylon ... Leer saccharum „ pseudo-platanus ... Esculus hippocastanum ilnus glutinosa 5etula alba ... 'astanea sativa Jatalpa speciosa 45,435 3,625 485,211 2,232 67,518 210,540 15,911 222,575 5 years 2 to 5 years 2 „ 54 „ 5 „ 54 „ 2 „ 54 „ 2 „ 64 „ 5 a 54 « 3 „ 5 „ Furniture, shop-fittings, pianos, railway purposes, billiard-tables, &c. Furniture, shoe-lasts, flooring, and general purposes (sap is made into sugar). Turnery, furniture, boxes, dairy utensils, blocks and pulleys. Cabinetmaking, sides and bottoms of carts, general turnery. Barrel-staves, boxes, general purposes under ground or under water. Cabinetmaking, turnery, barrel - staves, crates, brooms, &c. Furniture, flooring, interior work, posts, rails, &c. Furniture, posts, sleepers, and telephonepoles. Flooring, sleepers, fencing, and general lumber. Used generally for all constructive works where durability is essential, also for sleepers, posts, wheels, and other purposes where strength is required, tele-graph-poles. Boat-oars, cabinetmaking, coachbuilding, agricultural implements, tool-handles, &c. Ditto. Chiefly furniture and pianos, gun-stocks, billiard-tables, clocks, &e. Ditto. lupressus lawsoniana ... 23,700 O rt O-g- „ .ucalypti (species) 2,196,544 3 „ 5 IVaxinus americana ... 1,775 3 „ 34 a „ excelsior uglans cinerea 578,175 2,651 2 „ 04 „ 5 years „ nigra regia Lmghtia excelsa jarix europosa 4,952 61,424 200 5,275,460 3 to 5 years 34 . 54 „ About 6 years 2 to 54 years Furniture. Bailway-sleepers, posts, boat and bridge building, pit-props, and general farm purposes. Ditto. General constructive purposes, flooring, scaffolding, masts, spars, packing-cases, casks, pit-props, wood-pulp, &c. Ditto. „ leptolepsis 'icea excelsa 2,850 1,165,998 54 years 2 to 54 years „ sitchensis „ canadensis 153,993 1,400 34 „ 64 „ About 6 years

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Trees planted by the State Forests Department— continued.

Approximate dates when the trees will be fit for milling : No precise information on this point is available. Larch and eucalypti are frequently milled at from thirty to fifty years, whilst the general run of timber-trees might be fit for milling at from fifty to a hundred years, or even later. Wm. C. Kensington, Under-Secretary.

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Name of Tree. Number of The Ages of the | Trees of each Trees that have Kind planted. been planted. The Uses for which the Different Kinds of Trees are suitable. Pinus austriaca austriaca canariensis ... 3,085,926 2 to 54 years 1,025 34 „ 5 „ 3,085,926 2 to 54 years Used generally for all constructive purposes both inside and outside buildings, pack-ing-cases, butter-boxes, shelving, patternmaking, posts, sleepers, &c. Ditto. „ canariensis contorta „ coulterii „ densiflora „ excelsa „ halapensis ,, jeffreyii „ lainbertiana „ laricio... „ muricata „ ponderosa „ benthamiana „ pinaster „ radiata „ rigida ... „ sabiniana „ silvestris „ strobus „ thumbergii „ torreyana „ taeda ... Platanue orientalis contorta coulterii densiflora excelsa halapensis jeffreyii lainbertiana laricio... muricata ponderosa 1,090 5 years 605 5 „ 2,325 5 „ 100 5 „ 66,575 34 to 5 years 3,693 5 years 1,250 5 „ 677,900 3 to 64 years 109,070 1 2 „ 5 a rt tr C\f\C\ r» CI 435,000 2 „54 „ 1,025 1,090 605 2,325 100 66,575 3,693 1,250 677,900 109,070 I 435,000 117,050 11,425 110,161 9,325 25 '200 108,625 700 1,820 1,100 3,900 34 „ 5 „ 5 years 5 „ 5 „ 5 „ 34 to 5 years 5 years 5 „ 3 to 64 years 2 „ o' „ 2 „ 54 „ 34 , 54 „ About 6 years 34 to 64 „ 34 „ 54 „ 5 years 5 „ 2 to 54 years 5 years 5 „' 5 „ 5 „ benthamiana 117,050 : 34 „ 54 „ pinaster 11,425 : About 6 years a radiata 110,161 34to64 „ a rigida ... 9,325 : 34 „ 54 „ a sabiniana 25 : 5 years silvestris '200 5 „ strobus 108,625 2 to 54 years thumbergii 700 5 years a torreyana 1,820 5 „' a Podocarpus dacrydioides „ totara „ hallii Poplars (var.) Pseudo-tsuga taxifolia... Pyrus aucuparia taeda ... nus orientalis carpus dacrydioi „ totara „ hallii irs (var.) lo-tsuga taxifoli: 5 aucuparia bus pedunculata suber ilia pseudo-acaci (var.) ... oia sempervirens ora tetraptera a gigantea as campestris 1,100 5 „ 3,900 5 „ ides 550 3 „ 181,100 3 to 44 years 200 3 years 14,500 34 to 54 years ia... 419,972 2 „ 64 „ 32,033 3 „ 54 „ . ... I 2,031,671 2 „ 54 „ 1,124 44 years ia... 161,800 34 to 5 years 13,663 3 „ 54 „ s ... 41,841 3 „ 5 7,875 34 „ 54 „ 13,975 5 years 775 54 „ 550 181,100 200 14,500 419,972 32,033 2,031,671 3 „ 3 to 44 years 3 years 34 to 54 years 2 „ 0-5 „ 3 „ 54 „ 2 „ 54 „ Furniture, box-making, turnery, pulleys, and pattern-making. Butter-boxes and packing-cases. Telegraph-poles, sleepers, joinery, plates, and all purposes where durability is required. Ditto. Packing-cases, sides and bottoms of drays, furniture-frames, and interior work. Beams, general lumber, scaffolding, and all constructive work Cabinetmaking, furniture, turnery, carving, &e. House and ship building, wagons, carriages, casks, &c. Produces the cork of commerce. Posts, axe and pick handles, and general farm purposes. Cricket-bats, barrow and dray bottoms, knifeboards, bread-platters. Venetian blinds, general carpentry and joinery work. Posts, rake-teeth, dowels, and bent work, and general joinery and interior finishing. General joinery-work and interior finishing. Coffins, coachbuilding, furniture, &c. Quercus pedunculata ... „ suber Bobinia pseudo-acacia... 1,124 161,800 44 years 34 to 5 years Salix (var.) ... 13,663 3 „ 54 „ Sequoia sempervirens ... 41,841 3 „ 5 Sophora tetraptera 7,875 34 a "2 a Thuja gigantea Ulmus campestris Corylus avellana Ornamental shrubs, &c. 13,975 775 1,310 107,331 5 years 54 1, 5 to 54 years 34 „ 54 „ Total 18,300,779