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E. eximia of the same age and under similar conditions. E. raveretiana, 

 the "Gray Gum" (No. 1663), is considerably better in point of growth 

 than any of these. 



One of the most striking of the new eucalypts is E. stuartiana (No. 

 1676), also received from other sources. Trees of this, on May 1st, were 

 14 feet high and girthed 11 inches. E. corynocalyx, the noted "Sugar 

 Gum'* (No. 1620), grew 3 feet between January and May, and is also 

 one of the best in appearance among the species in this plantation. 



Other New Eucalypts. Several species or sub-species, not heretofore 

 named, have done very well. One of the very best of these is E. punc- 

 tata var. grandiflora, of excellent upright and rapid growth. E. resinifera 

 var. grandiflora is another of striking appearance. Both the above have 

 made trees 12 feet high in fifteen months after planting out, and both, 

 like E. rostrata and E. corynocalyx, are worth the serious consideration 

 of planters. E. rubida has done nearly as well, and is also a desirable 

 species. E. McArthurii yields badly to tlie sea winds. E. stricta has 

 grown slowly and very poorly. E. obcordata, while very slow in growth, 

 is a handsome shrub. 



Distributions of Seed and Trees. Eucalyptus seeds gathered at this 

 substation were to some extent distributed locally. Trees of new and 

 rare species to the number of 4,000 were distributed to such applicants 

 as agree to make future reports. Among those receiving trees were the 

 American Beet Sugar Company at Oxnard, the Hollywood Cemetery 

 Association, the Imperial Land Company, Senator Thomas R. Bard, 

 Mr. T. P. Lukens, Mr. Theodore Payne, and Mr. W. L. Clay berg. These 

 trees were sent to widely scattered points, from Indio and Imperial to 

 Santa Barbara and Antelope Valley. Many small lots of a dozen 

 named trees were sent out. The number of species distributed was 

 twenty-five, including E. ficifolia and other ornamental sorts, E. corym- 

 bosa, E. polyanthema, and other honey eucalypts, and E. corynocalyx, E. 

 rostrata, and other timber and drought-resisting species. 



Hillside Planting. In 1901 and 1902 a number of eucalypts were 

 planted on the newly-cleared hillslopes. In places these were too steep 

 to plow and the trees were "pocketed in." The results have been very 

 satisfactory, not one out of four hundred trees having been lost. Most 

 of the species represented in the new plantation on the middle mesa 

 were used here also, together with a few represented only on the upper 

 mesa. In all, nearly thirty species were set on this slope. On similar 

 slopes, pines (P. insignis and P. austriaca) and six species of acacias 

 were planted at the same time and have made a good start. Each of 

 these trees received a quart of water when planted out. 



ACACIAS. 



In previous reports attention has been called to the value of the 

 tanbark acacias for otherwise waste lands wherever the winter tempera- 

 ture does not fall below 22 Fahr. A full account of the yield of eight- 

 year-old trees of Acacia decurrens, A. mollissima, and A. pycnantha, 

 together with analyses, appears on pages 227-230 of the Report for 

 1897-8. The remaining portion of the acacia grove therein reported 

 upon suffered much from drought in 1898-1900, but the past two winters- 



