66 FOREST CULTURE AND 
of London, Paris, Calcutta, San Francisco, Buenos 
Ayres, Valparaiso and elsewhere, as it will be long 
before a sufficient local supply can be secured abroad 
from cultivated trees. 
Monsieur Prosper Ramel, of Paris, stands foremost 
among those who promoted Eucalyptus culture in 
South Europe. 
Facts, such as just alluded to, may give an idea 
with what ease the Eucalyptus can be disseminated 
over extensive areas. Although the first cost of seeds, 
or the facilities for their transit, preservation, and 
germination, can only enter to a small extent into 
consideration, when an object so important as that of 
raising or restoring forests is to be attained, yet the 
data thus far given in reference to some of the best 
Eucalypts cannot but tend toward encouragement of 
culture here and abroad. Indeed, among nearly all 
the trees of the globe, most of our Eucalypts, together 
with species of the allied genera —tristania, ango- 
phora, melaleuca and metrosideros — produce seeds 
the most minute and the most copious. The seeds of 
the Birches, and of most species of ficus are, however, 
also remarkably light and numerous. 
Atsaw-mills and splitters’ establishments, the gath- 
ering of seeds, particularly through the aid of chil- 
dren, might be carried on most conveniently and most 
inexpensively, the sums realized therefrom being clear 
gain. The same may be said of collecting the abun- 
‘dant gum-resins of various Eucalypts, which, for 
medicinal and technologie purposes, are now in much 
demand for export. Purchasers in the city offer about 
one shilling per pound. The liquid (very astringent) 
exudations of the Eucalypts are also salable. The 
