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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