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"StERCULIA ACCU5IINATA." 



The latest reports shew renewed enquiry, and increased prices 

 for this product. 



123.-EUOALYPTUS USELESS AGAINST MALARIA. 



" Undee the heading ' The passing of the Eucalyptus,' the Journal 

 " of the American Medical Association states that the Consuls of the 

 " United States in Europe report unfavourably on the supposed 

 ^' virtues of Eucalyptus. The Trappist monks of Tre Fontane, three 

 " miles from Rome, have planted since 1873 no fewer than 50,000 trees 

 " on a few acres. In 1880 the Government established an agricultural 

 ** colony of penitentiary convicts in quarters supposed to have been 

 " already improved by the eucalyptus. The convicts were surrounded 

 " by hygienic conditions far superior to those of the labourers of the 

 " Campagna, yet nearly all became stricken with malarial fever within 

 " a year after their arrival. In 1882 all the inhabitants of Tre 

 " Fontane were attacked. The guards at the colony had all to be 

 " changed. The efficacy of the eucalyptus for the improvement of the 

 *' air is no greater than that of the elm, pine, and mulberry. If it 

 " recommends itself by rapidity of growth, the trees just mentioned 

 " recommend themselves by being hardier and more easily grown. 

 " Professor Liversidge, of the University of Sydney, stated long ago 

 " that in the Southern Hemisphere, Avhere the Eucalypti thrive best, 

 " there are forests of these trees where malaria is specially noxious. 

 ' The tree itself is no ornament, the continually spontaneous peeling 

 " off of the bark producing an unsightly effect." 



The above was published in the Daily News of February 14th, 

 1895, and I give it for the benefit of my readers, as opposed to the 

 general opinion now extant upon the subject. My own opinion upon 

 the matter was given in No. 24, October, 1894. 



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