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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