The same proportion is presumable in the popularity of 

 the trees, as is shown in this list. Such a list would not 

 correspond with California tree popularity. It demonstrates 

 however the high esteem in which the sugar gum has 

 come to be held in South Australia. The South Australian 

 reports show continued popularity of the sugar gum over all 

 other trees. 



Another South Australian report gives the principal 

 trees planted in that colony during the year to have been: 



Eucalyptus corynocalyx 422,687 



globulus 48,360 



leucoxylon (S. A. blue gum) .... 14,453 



rostrata 44,040 



Pinus insignis 87,230 



4 ' pinaster 42 ,060 



Quercus robur 59,ooo 



The young sugar gum has nearly round leaves of the 

 same dark color as the mature form and generally has a 

 steel blue glint in or over the dark green. This young 

 form is much more persistent in the sugar than in the blue 

 gum, in fact, trees at least six years old still have the 

 lower third of -their foliage more or less oval. The mature 

 form is lanceolate in shape. The new growth is a lively 

 reddish color similar to the new wood of an apricot orchard 

 seen from a distance just before the bloom. In the grow- 

 ing season the tops and often one side of the trees have a 

 red appearance which on the dark green foliage is pleasing. 

 The botanical name of this tree (corynocalyx) refers to 

 the club shape of the calyx before flowering; a shape 

 peculiar to this tree alone amongst the Eucalyptus (Von 

 Mueller.) The fruit is shaped similar to an Indian club and 

 according to Von Mueller is striped or grooved. The sugar 



