THe JOURNAL 



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leRARY 



NEW YORK 



•iOTANICAL 



;iARt>EN. 



Tfie department of ^9ncurtur6. 



Vol. VII. Papt 3. 



loth Mareh, 1909. 



THE ALGARROBO OR CAROB TREE. 



F. de CastcUa, Government ViticuUiirist. 



This valuable tree is not unknown in Victoria, for healthy specimens 

 are to be found here and there in several of our country districts and its 

 extensive cultivation has been recommended by Baron von Mueller and other 

 botanical authorities. This advice has not, however, been acted upon and 

 no trials on anything like a practical scale seem to have been made. 



A few notes concerning what I saw recently of this remarkable drought 

 resisting tree in Eastern Spain may prove of interest, and possibly lead to 

 it? further trial in Victoria. 



CAROB TREES IN EASTERN SPAIN. 



It was on the railway journey from Barcelona to Valencia that I first 

 saw extensive plantations of it; in this region the Algarrobo is one of the 

 striking features of the landscape. The beans borne by it, and" especially 

 the fleshy pods rich in sugar in which they are contained, constitute a large 

 portion of the fodder consumed by horses and mules. So much is this so 



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