220 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
XV. Notes on Tree Planting at San Jorge, Uruguay, South 
America. By Cuartes E. HALL, of San Jorge. 
Sitwation.—The estate of San Jorge lies in lat. 32° 43’ §., 
long. 56° 8’ W., about 160 miles N. of Monte Video, and about 
the same distance from the sea, the river Uruguay, and the 
Brazilian frontier. The altitude of the highest ground above 
sea-level is probably 400 feet, falling to 280 feet on the lowest 
ground. 
Preliminary.—San Jorge was originally the name of an estate 
of about 330 square miles, belonging to the late Mr Thomas Fair 
of Edinburgh, sold off in portions and at various dates since the 
year 1867. The head station became my property in 1876, and 
now, with about 10} square miles of land, retains the old name. 
In 1876, in the garden-ground round the house, there were about 
180 robinias (2. Pseud-Acacia), 120 Lombardy poplars, 50 
paraisos (Melia Azedarach); a few ornamental trees, perhaps 20 ; 
and about 320 fruit-trees, chiefly pears, apples, oranges, figs, 
peaches, and quinces, also a few apricots, plums, cherries, pome- 
granates, and vines, I shortly after planted a few more fruit- 
trees; andin July 1880 made my first small plantation of trees 
for business purposes. 
Character of Country.—Uruguay is almost universally bare of 
natural woods, save along the margins of streams and rivers. 
The country is undulating, generally pretty well watered, with 
low hill-ranges, some rather stony, some with no surface stone, of 
no great elevation over the dividing water-courses, in few cases 
rising more than 100 feet over the nearest running water, and 
generally descending to the water-course levels by easy slopes, 
These water-courses do not invariably and always contain water. 
Such is the character of the San Jorge district, and of much of 
the western and southern parts of Uruguay. To the north and 
east the land is more rocky, the hills bolder and higher, wood 
more frequent, and not entirely confined to the banks of streams, 
being sometimes found in clumps in rocky dells. But even in 
Southern and Western Uruguay, tala (Celtis Tala) and espinillo 
(Acacia Farnesiana) are in a few parts found on dry stony hill- 
tops or plateaux. The imperishable “jfiandubay,” which no 
drought affects, is also an exception to the rule that woods grow 
exclusively on the banks of streams, 
Indigenous trees, besides the three above mentioned, are not 
