Excerpt from Forestry Handbook, Vol. 2: Some of the Principal Commercial, Trees of New South Wales The list of trees submitted is imperfect, and the following explanation shows how and why it is so. All the illustrations are based upon the illustrations contained in my Forest Flora of New South Wales, which is still in progress, and sixty parts (ten parts to a volume), dealing with individual trees, and containing a number of Appendices treating of general forestry subjects, have now appeared. Only a selection has been made, and if a further edition be called for, additional trees will be dealt with. In its incomplete state it is believed that it will form a handy volume, showing the state of our knowledge of certain trees in New South Wales, and perusal of it may lead to additions by forest officers and others. Much of the information concerning abundance and distribution of individual species can only be amplified when a forest survey is undertaken. In January, 1906, I published in the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales a list of 521 trees indigenous to New South Wales, and additional ones have been discovered since then. So that the subject, in this richly-endowed State, is a sufficiently vast one. Some of the trees are, however, not of sufficient economic importance to be dealt with in this Handbook; on the other hand, there is a formidable array of exotic trees either introduced into New South Wales or considered desirable for experiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.