. A discussion of Australian forestry : with special references to forestry in Western Australia, the necessity of an Australian forest policy, and notices of organised forestry in other parts of the world. Forests and forestry; Rabbits. 414 TARIFF INVESTIGATION. [Appendix V. An illustration of the high value placed upon our eucalypts, and an appreciation of their wide utiUtv, is to be found in a report published in 1902 by the United States Department of Agriculture. In the introduction to that work, which is entitled Eucalypts Cultivation in in the Uvited States, it is said— " The eucal
. A discussion of Australian forestry : with special references to forestry in Western Australia, the necessity of an Australian forest policy, and notices of organised forestry in other parts of the world. Forests and forestry; Rabbits. 414 TARIFF INVESTIGATION. [Appendix V. An illustration of the high value placed upon our eucalypts, and an appreciation of their wide utiUtv, is to be found in a report published in 1902 by the United States Department of Agriculture. In the introduction to that work, which is entitled Eucalypts Cultivation in in the Uvited States, it is said— " The eucalypts are now grown in America, especially in the South-Western United States, more extensively than any other exotic forest tree. During the past forty years they have been planted here and m other parts of the world for ornament, for sanitary improvements, for shade, for wind breaks, for fuel, for oU, and for timber, and incidentally they have been useful in many other ways. In fact, they have probably served more aesthetic and utilitarian purposes than any other forest trees that have been planted on this continent. These trees have been studied and extolled alike by botanists, gardeners, and foresters. They are worthy of all the attention that lias been given them, and deserve to be better known. The late Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, Government Botanist of Victoria, Australia, a most renowned student of the great Australian genua eucalyptus, prophesied in his scholarly Eicalyptographia that " the eucalypts are destined to play a prominent part for all time to come in the svlvan culture of vast tracts of the globe, and for hardwood supplies, for sanitary measures, and for beneficent climatic changes all countries within the warmer zones wUl with appreciative extensiveness have to relv on our eucalvpts during an as yet uncountable period.' All who have lived where eucalypts erow can realise fully tlie force of the prophecy and the great value of the genus to mankind bot
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