Excursions And Adventures in New South Wales: With Pictures of Squatting And ...
Excursions And Adventures in New South Wales: With Pictures of Squatting And ...
John Henderson
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Some of these are very pretty, like large tufts of grass, growing high up the trees, and bearing a very elegant white flower. The Stringy-Bark is a most useful tree to the aborigines, as well as to the settler. It affords the best bark for covering houses, and will also, if required, split into slabs. Its bark, if carefully taken off, is impervious to rain, and will last on a roof for two years or more. The Blackbut is another forest tree, and is esteemed for its quality of readily splitting in...to slabs. The Iron-Bark derives its name from the very hard, rough, and thick bark in which it is encased. The wood itself is of astonish- ing hardness, and quickly destroys any tools that are used upon it. It affords the best shingles for roofing houses. The Bloodwood is a rather handsome tree, crowned in its season with a pretty white Digitized by LjOOQIC IN NRW SOUTH WALES. 215 blossom. It gets its name from the red colour of its wood. A good deal of blood- colom*ed gum exudes from it. It is supposed to give out more heat while burnings and to remain longer at a red heat^ than any other woods, and is, therefore, esteemed for burn- ing lime, &c.
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