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Uses to which the Different Kinds of Trees grown in the State Plantations may be put. The accompanying table gives a description of the uses to which the timber of the trees now standing in the State plantations may eventually be put. It is corrected to the 31st March, 1909.

Name of Tree. Number planted. Uses for which the Different Kinds of Trees are suitable. Acacia melanoxylon Acer saccharum.. „ pseudo-platanus jEscuIus hippocastanum .. Alnus glutinosa Betula alba Castanea sativa Catalpa speciosa Cupressus Lawsoniana Eucalypti (species) 140,335 3,625 525,247 2,232 77,918 252,710 15,911 2,196,544 23,700 3,464,589 Furniture, shop-fittings, pianos, railway purposes, billiardtables, &o. 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 telephone-poles. 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, telegraph-poles. Boat-oars, cabinetmaking, coachbuilding, agricultural implements, tool-handles, &c. Ditto. Coachbuilding, &o. Chiefly furniture and pianos, gun-stocks, billiard-tables, clocks, &c. Ditto. Fraxinus americana 2,245 „ excelsior Hickora ovata Juglans cinerea 583,925 2,500 2,651 nigra .. ,, regia .. ... Juniperus virginiana Knightia excelsa Larix europoea .. 14,952 61,424 1,270 200 10,989,835 >> Pencils, cabinet-work, &c. Furniture. Railway-sleepers, posts, boat and bridge building, pitprops, and general farm purposes. Ditto. General constructive purposes, flooring, scaffolding, masts, spars, packing-cases, casks, pit-props, wood-pulp, &c. Ditto. ,, leptolepsis Picea excelsa 2,850 1,242,723 , „ sitchensis .. ,, canadensis Pinus austriaca .. 241,623 1,400 3,769,431 )5 Used generally for all constructive purposes both inside and outside buildings, packing-cases, butter-boxes, shelving, pattern-making, posts, sleepers, &c. Ditto. „ canariensis 1,025 10,290 605 2,325 300 66,575 4,703 1,325 3,756,325 2,000 132,025 14,325 1,200,375 291,145 11,425 110,161 2,100 15,525 25 200 137,125 700 1,820 1,100 3,900 ,, contorta .. ,, Coulterii ,, densiflora.. „ excelsa „ halapensis ,, Jeffreyii .. „ Lambertiana ,, Laricio „ montana .. ,, muricata .. „ Murrayana „ ponderosa ,, Benthamiana ,, pinaster .. „ radiata ,, resinosa .. „ rigida ,, sabiniana.. „ silvestris ,, strobus .. ,, Thunbergii „ Torreyana ,, tseda Platanus orientalis j> >J 5> j> j> JJ >> >> JJ >5 JJ >> J) j> >J JJ j> Furniture, box-making, turnery, pulleys, and patternmaking.