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directly exposed to the strong sea breeze. It cannot 

 stand the conditions of the trade wind immediately on the 

 bluff at Santa Monica without protection. A line of these 

 trees planted on the bluff side of the Arcadia garden by Mr. 

 J. W. Scott were badly sea burned and would have died had 

 not this gentleman erected a high picket fence on the 

 windward side of them. These have remained vigorous but 

 cannot grow far above the fence because the sea breeze kills 

 them back above that point. I first saw this open style of 

 windbrake at Woodward's Garden, a zoological garden and 

 place of resort in San Francisco. It was in the shape of 

 an enormously high lath fence and had replaced one of 

 solid boarding which had failed in its purpose. It is this 

 fact which doubtless makes a tree windbreak so effective, 

 and an open growing tree like Eucalyptus better than a 

 close growing one like the Monterey cypress. I have seen 

 orange trees that had been blown over immediately under 

 the lee of a dense cypress hedge over 50 feet high while 

 the orange trees immediately to windward were unmoved. 

 In this case there was protection from the windbrake but 

 in its front instead of in its rear. Seventh street, a great 

 thoroughfare in Los Angeles, has been planted at its west 

 end by the property owners with sugar gums. From this 

 extensive experiment we will soon be able to judge how 

 the sugar gum will succeed on a city street with sidewalks, etc. 

 Eucalyptus corynocalyx does well all over this county. 

 One of the best single specimens is in iny garden at Santa 

 Monica. Many more can be seen at Santa Monica Heights. 

 One of the oldest roadside plantings of the sugar gum is 

 on the Lamanda Park road in Sierra Madre, Cal. This 

 road shows well what can be expected of Eucalyptus cory- 

 nocalyx on both sand and good soil in our interior valleys. 



