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During the intervening quarter century Mr. Cooper has continued 

 the extensive planting of Eucalypts. He has set them in canyons 

 and on steep hillsides, has utilized them for a forest cover, for wind- 

 breaks, for shade on avenues, for sources of timber and wood, as 

 well as for ornament, thus furnishing the country an object lesson 

 of what the tree will do for an appreciative planter. He now has 

 about 200 acres of his ranch north of Santa Barbara covered with for- 

 ests of these trees. Here is the best place in America to see a large 

 variety of Eucalypts grown as forest trees. Several varieties to be 

 seen only as botanical or ornamental specimens elsewhere can be seen 

 here growing by the acre. Mr. Cooper's groves have been and will 

 continue to be valuable sources of information as to the behavior, 

 when growing in forests, of several species not yet generally olanted 

 in America. 



A great impetus has been given the planting of Eucalypts in the 

 southwestern United States by the labors of Hon. Abbot Kinney, of 

 Los Angeles. As chairman of the California Board of Forestry from 

 1886 to 1888 he rendered a great service to the State in causing the 

 planting of thousands of Eucalypts within her borders. A large per- 

 centage of the trees of species other than Eucalyptus globulus, now 

 growing in the Southwest, are from plants distributed during his 

 administration. Mr. Kinney has ever since been an enthusiastic stu- 

 dent and planter of trees of this genus, and has written more upon 

 Eucalypts than any other American. In southern California espe- 

 cially, and in Arizona also, the planting of these trees has been extended 

 very much by his work. 



During recent years the planting of Eucalypts has been stimulated by 

 the labors of Mr. A. Campbell-Johnston, of Garvanza, Cal., an ardent 

 student and admirer of these trees, who by his writings and his example 

 has done much to attract attention to the merits of the genus. The 

 firm with which he is connected at South Pasadena, Cal., is rendering 

 a service of incalculable value in furnishing for planting authentically 

 named seedling Eucalypts. Mr. Campbell-Johnston is also conducting 

 at his ranch the most extensive cultural test of species of Eucalyptus 

 that has been made in America. 



It is through the labors of such men as have been mentioned, and 

 of many others, that the Eucalypts have become disseminated and 

 recognized and very generally planted throughout California. The 

 landscape of many parts of the State has been completely changed 

 by the growth of these trees. Over much of the State they arc the 

 principal wind-break, shade, and fuel trees, and the number of useful 

 purposes they serve is continually increasing. Without the Eucalypts 

 California would be a very different State, and their value to the Com- 

 monwealth is be}'ond calculation. 



From California the planting of Eucalypts extended into Arizona. 



