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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION. 



In 1887 the Director of the Experiment Station had several hundred 

 trees planted near the top of a knoll at an elevation of 800 feet. The 

 slope here is west and northwest and is fully exposed to the winds. It 



PLATE 17. EUCALYPTUS GROVE (E. globulus), NEAR ECONOMIC GARDEN. 



was therefore, as a site, hardly equal to the average. The trees planted 

 were English oaks, cork oaks, Monterey pines, and Monterey cypresses. 



