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Eucalyptus amygdalina is reported to grow faster than any 

 wood-making plant. Nothing in our experience with 

 regnaris shows it to be a fast growing plant. So also, in 

 experiments at and near Santa Monica we have found 

 several species growing for a short time in that situation 

 as fast as the blue gum. Of these experiments we 

 may mention a Eucalyptus viminalis (Manna-gum) that, 

 nineteen months from the seed, and fourteen months from 

 the transplanting, without cultivation, on a side hill, grew 

 fourteen feet six and three-fourths inches. A Eucalyptus 

 corynocalyx (sugar gum) of the same age and in the same 

 place grew only one-fourth of an inch less. I have seen 

 an E. Gunnii for the first two or three years, grow faster 

 than a blue gum by its side. But taking dry and wet 

 canyon and plain the blue gum will exceed in growth any 

 tree in the long run. 



Some of the records are as follows : 



GROWTH OF K. GLOBULUS. . 



Malaga. Spain, 6 yrs. 65 feet 



Nielgherry hills, India, 18 mos. fromseed, 20 to 25 feet 

 Lago Maggiore, Italy, 9 years, - - - 60 feet 

 Nice, France, 5 years, - - - 50 feet 



Kinneloa, California, 8 years, - 71 feet 



Experimental plantation of trees reported on by J. Ednie 

 Brown, Conservator of Forests, S. Australia, showing com- 

 parative rate of growth of different trees similarly situated. 



