The Pinus Insignis.

Progress, Volume XVI, Issue 4, 1 December 1920, Page 93

The Pinus Insignis.

Mr. J. C. D. Hay, Forest Guard, Moss Vale, forwards particulars of two pinus insignis trees which were planted 29 years ago at Bundanoon, five miles from the Penrose State Forest. Not only did the sawyer, Mr. Tooth, remember distinctly the plant-

ing of the trees, but also a count of the annual rings showed that the calculation as shown by the sections were correct. The total quantity of sawn timber contained in boards up to 15 inches in width which were yielded by the two trees amounted to 1,700 super, feet, giving an average of 850 feet per tree.

The owner desired to keep the timber for his own use, but it could have been marketed locally for 355. per 100 super, feet, so that the value of the sawn product was £29 15s. This works out at over £l4 1 qs. for a 29-year-old tree, or roughly 10s. per year; The standing value of the trees before conversion would not be less than half of this, so those wno had sufficient interest in trees to plant them extensively in earlier days have now an asset of considerable value.

This very fine development per tree may not of course be accepted as a measure of the growth to be expected under forest conditions, for the trees in question were growing in isolated positions and consequently made much faster growth than is possible for each individual tree in a close plantation.