1890] Od [Pepper. 



to enable them to resist tlie heat of summer without occasional irriga- 

 tion. 



"The Eucalyptus is a plant that does not stand being kept long in a 

 pan ; its roots grow with as great rapidity as the rest of the tree, and, 

 if they are allowed to be contorted round the inside of the pan, the tree 

 does not recover from this unnatural condition of things and seldom 

 grows straight and healthy." 



As previously stated, as soon as the ground (which 



Planting in the has been broken up and freed from other growths, 

 open on a large ]ate in the winter or early in the spring while wet) 

 **''' *'' becomes again impregnated with the rains of autumn, 



plough and plant out the young trees of three to five 

 months' growth (which have often five to eight leaves each), at inter- 

 spaces of four metres in trenches, and as thej' increase in height, pro- 

 gressively fill in the trenches, till in six months they have entirely dis- 

 appeared, and instead of a depression, the earth becomes piled up round 

 the stem of the young trees ; this serves not only to keep the roots 

 moist, but to prevent the slender stem fi'om being blown over by 

 heavy Avinds against which eucalyptus should always be protected as 

 much as possible to prevent twisting and a slow growth. 



It is well to give each plant a good watering when put into the 

 ground, but they will generally not require another (?).* The soil 

 should be kept free from weeds and open for the first two or three 

 years, which may be conveniently done by passing a cultivator between 

 them in each direction once or twice a year. After the third year they 

 may be left to themselves and will require no further care. 



"Weakly specimens are eliminated wherever necessary and their 

 places filled with hardy plants, until a full plantation of trees is ob- 

 tained from four to five metres apart." 



"When eucalypti are to be planted on quite a small 



Planting on a scale, instead of trenches, holes of a cubic capacity 



small scale. of 0.5 metre may be made; but this is not to be 



recommended in the open field, as the heavy rains 



are apt to fill up the holes with earth and smother the plant, instead of 



being carried otf hj the open trenches above described. 



"By judicious management plantations can be 



Definite aspect obtained in which the trees are about four metres 

 of a plantation. apart, and after ten years or so, every alternate row 

 in its entiretj' may be cut down, leaving the remain- 

 ing trees at eight metres apart." 



* It sometimes happens, when the rains cease early m the year, that ihe young 

 ■eucalypti have not become sufficiently rooted during their short sojourn in the open 

 ground to enable them to resist the heat of summer without occasional irrigation. 



