EUCAL YPTUS. 6f 



In its first years it is not attractive, but after three or 

 four years the foliage seems to become brighter and 

 greener, and, when the new shoots are coming on, it is 

 the finest green of any of the Eucalypti we have. 



The timber of this tree is highly valued, especially for 

 its durability in ground and water. This quality is attrib- 

 uted to the large percentage of kino-tannin and kino-red 

 the wood contains. The other species sharing with it in rep- 

 utation of durability generally contain large amounts of kino. 

 Some of these are Eucalyptus resinifera, Eucalyptus robusta 

 Eucalyptus marginata, Eucalyptus diversicolor, Eucalyptus 

 siderophloia. 



Eucalyptus rostrata has suffered in California through 

 its mistaken identification with various other Eucalypti. 



I know of no specimens of Eucalyptus rostrata, except 

 those about Santa Barbara in California, that antedate the 

 ones grown from seed imported by me while Chairman of 

 the State Board of Forestry. All trees reported as red 

 gums and visited and examined by botanists have turned 

 out to be other species generally viminalis. There may 

 be old, individual rostratas in the State, but certainly no 

 plantations of rostrata (red gum,) as such, other than 

 Cooper's were made before the Forestry Board distributions. 



This is regretable on account of the hardiness and 

 value of the true lostrata. 



The vernacular name of red gum is not confined in 

 Australia to the rostrata. This is one fact to which we 

 may attribute the early mistakes in attempts to plant Eu- 

 calyptus rostrata. 



In the San Gabriel Valley Eucalyptus rostrata is one of 

 our hardiest trees and a fast grower. One of the earlier 

 planted rostratas is at the place of Dr. Wernigk, in the 



