Looking up at the towering heights of 'Australia's most beautiful tree', as it has been called in a recent publication, one meditates upon the beauties and the possibilities of Callitris columellaris. It was an apt description: 'It appears as a spire composed of innumerable eruptions of green smoke', and to my joy I found myself unexpectedly driving past the very institution at Gladesville, New South Wales, where a grove of the finest specimens of this tree is thriving. Again on the way back from Leura I espied a specimen in a state school garden. This unsung beauty could certainly become one of the most useful and decorative of landscape plants for Australian gardens.

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Another timber tree that I would like to see in hundreds of acres, ready for future use, is the Tallowwood, Eucalyptus microcorys. It makes the most beautiful floors, which need no waxing - merely rubbing up the natural tallow in the wood - and it shows no marks of the heels of boots as other hardwood floors will do. It is thinking of these timbers that makes me hate the sight and sound of Pinus raidata, which is planted in such millions - and rightly so, no doubt, but not to the exclusion of the native timbers. ...