The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 40
Class 43.—Products of the Cultivation of Forests and of the Trades Appertaining Thereto
Class 43.—Products of the Cultivation of Forests and of the Trades Appertaining Thereto.
- Specimens of Australian and New Zealand Timber, showing the action of "Teredo Navalis"
- Specimens of Jarrah and Totara Timbers.
- Sample Board of Kahikatea
- Section of a Stump of Flowering Fuchsia Tree (grown in scrub, near Nelson), 65 inches in circumference. Large specimens can be obtained
- Polished and Named Samples of Native New Zealand Woods
- Collection of Timbers showing Results of Experiments for Determining Strength
- Two Slabs of Kauri Pine
- Block of Totara Wood, suitable for veneering cabinet-work, obtained at Wakapauka
- Plank of Yellow Pine Timber, and Section of same Tree with the bark on.
- Specimens of New Zealand Woods, polished on face, rough at back.
- Tanning, Dyeing, and Medical Extracts—
- A—Six Samples of Extract of Towai—
1 Discolourised and refined from cold infusion 2 Refined from cold infusion 3 Unrefined from cold infusionpage 41 4 From the Timber infusion 5 Spring growth infusion 6 From hot infusion, unrefined B—7 Extract of Rimu or Red Pine, unrefined 8 Extract of Rimu or Birch, unrefined 9 Extract of Rimu or Rata Climber, unrefined 10 Tanning Compound, unrefined 11 Extract of Hinau, unrefined 12 Extract of Pukatea C— Extract of Towai D—1 Liquid Extract of Supplejack 2 Compound Extract of the same, with the Kawa Kawa 3 Liquid Extract of Taraxacum 4 Cheese Colouring
The Towai (Weinmannia racemosa) is an indigenous tree largely distributed over the hilly lands in many parts of New Zealand; it is often to be met with four or five feet in diameter, and from thirty to sixty feet in height. It grows frequently in clusters united at the base in a large tubular stoloniferous root, and in numerous instances round Mount Egmont the tree forms a natural bridge over the stream, as it first grows upright on the bank, and then gradually inclines over until its top reaches the land on the other side; there it rests, a forest of young trees springing up vertically from the prostrate trunk. A zone of thirty miles, three miles in width round the high lands of Mount Egmont is clothed exclusively with Towai, whilst throughout the whole district the banks of most of the rivers will yield a large supply. A reference to the map will show the distribution. The Extract is unusually rich in tannin and forms good leather, and as a dye will yield all the shades obtainable from gambier. It can be cheaply rendered.
In case B the first four Extracts are astringent, of greater or less value.
No. 11, Hinau (Elœocarpus dentatus), is of sufficient importance to deserve a special notice.
The Hinau is an evergreen forest tree of considerable dimensions. The bark is used by the natives in dyeing black their beautiful flax mats. The flax after a soaking in a hot fusion of the bark is buried for a time in the red iron mud so abundant in the stagnant pools. The Hinau can only be considered of value as a dye, yielding yellow buffs and blacks.
No. 12 is an Extract of the Pukatea (Atherosperma Novæ Zealandæ). It is a valuable tonic, much in use amongst the Maoris as a remedy for neuralgia. In selecting a tree for stripping, they always take one that has been exposed to the fullest effects of the sun's rays.
- Thirty-one Samples, polished and named, of Timbers grown in New Zealand, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Dunedin
- Timbers of Canterbury and Westland—
2 Melecytus ramiflorus 3 Pittosporum tenuifolium 4 Olearia ilicifolia 6 Plagianthus betulinus 10 Elœocarpus hookerianus 11 Pennantia corymbosa 13 Alectryon excelsum (Titoki) 15 Sophora tetrapterapage 42 16 Carpodetus serratus 17 Leptospermum ericoides (Manuka) 19 Fuchsia excorticata 21 Panax crassifolium (Lancewood) 24 Griselina littoralis 26 Dodonea viscosa 27 Myrsine urvillei 29 Epicarpurus microphyllus 33 Podocarpus ferruginea 39 Libocedrus bidiwilli 40 Phyllocladus alpinus 41 Plagianthus lyallii 42 Dracophyllum traversii 44 Podocarpus totara 45 Elœocarpus dentatus 46 Fagus fusca 47 Aristotelia racemosa 48 Panax colensoi 49 Dacrydium colensoi 50 Weinmannia racemosa 51 Dacrydium cupressimum 52 Panax edgerleyi 53 Pittosporum tenuifolium 54 Panax crassifolium 55 Metrosideros lucida (Rata) 56 Discaria australis 57 Myoporum lœtum 58 Coprosma liniarifolia 59 Fuchsia excorticata 60 Panax crassifolium (Lancewood) 61 Epicarpurus microphyllus 62 Pennantia corymbosa 63 Panax edgerlyi
- Eight specimens of Native Ornamental Woods, Table Top, shewing totara-knot and honeysuckle, rewa-rewa
- 1 Piece Kauri Timber, 12 feet x 76 inches x 6 inches
- 1 Piece Kauri Timber, 12 feet x 76 inches x 1½ inches
- 2 Piece Kauri Timber, 12 feet x 76 inches x 1 inches
- Specimens of Timber from Westland
- Specimens of large Kauri Timber, grown in New Zealand
- Two Planks of Rimu. polished
- Twenty-one specimens of New Zealand Woods
- Rough piece of Kauri Timber, shewing the natural formation of kauri gum
- Bark
- Fine specimen of Kauri Timber
- Ornamental Timbers from New Zealand Forests—
1 7 Varieties Mottled Kauri 2 2 Varieties Puriri 3 2 Varieties Rewa-rewa 4 1 Varieties Ake-ake 5 1 Varieties Mottled Totara 6 1 Varieties Rihikitu 7 1 Varieties Rimo 8 1 Varieties Curly Kauri
- Specimens of Native Timber of Otago
- Portion of Totara Log, worked with stone adzes, from Maori Fith-weir, Shag River
- Samples of Birch Totara, 15s. per 100 feet, delivered at Winton Railway Station
- Kauri Timber
- Veneers of Colonial Woods
- 6 large Coal Baskets
- 6 smaller Coal Baskets
Made from New Zealand supplejack, the larger baskets being five to carry a ton, the smaller being nine to the ton.
- Specimens of Timbers from Southland.
- New Zealand Timber and Bark, for tanning—
1 Pennantia corymbosa (Kaikomako) 2 Elœocarpus dentatus (Whinau) 3 Fagus solandri (Tawai)page 44 4 Dysoxylum spectabile (Rewa-rewa) 5 Olea cunninghamii (Maire) 6 Podocarpus docrydivides (Kahikatea) 7 Podocarpus ferruginea (Miro) 8 Leptospermum scoporimum (Kahikatoa) 9 Nesodaphne tawa (Tawa) 10 Weinmannia racemosa (Tawhero) 11 Melreytus ramiflorus (Hinau-hinau) 12 Sophora tetraptera (Kohai) 13 Metrosideros robusta (Rata) 14 Fuchsia excorticata (Kotukutuka) 15 Persoonia toro (Toro) 16 Podocarpus totara (Totara) 17 Podocarpus spicata (Matai) 18 Dacrydium cupressinum (Rimu) 19 Bark of No. 2 (Whinau bark) 20 Berries of No. 2 (Whinau berries).