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are on the Berkeley campus. At this place there is also a 

 fine smooth barked specimen. 



Eucalyptus viminalis is a fast grower, hardier to frost 

 and drought than the blue gum, but fails as to drought in 

 light soils, where the sugar gum does well. Its foliage 

 contains 16 per cent of fruit sugar to 10.42 per cent in 

 that of rostrata. 



The viminalis has stood the exceptional semi-tropic 

 frosts of some of our interior California yalleys very well. 

 When established it will resist 10 P., and perhaps a lower 

 temperature. In the Victorian gorges it has been noted as 

 attaining a height of 320 feet. In the open, however, it 

 rarely exceeds 120 feet. 



The timber of this tree varies in value, none being 

 really good. That from trees in the moist gorges is best, 

 while that from trees in the open is generally inferior and 

 brittle. 



This tree, in the light sandy soils of the San Gabriel 

 Valley old torrent beds, is slow in growth, scant in 

 foliage, and in very dry years has a death rate little less 

 than similarly placed blue gums. The sugar gum is the 

 best tree for these places. 



The wood of Eucalyptus viminalis is remarkably fissile, 

 but is not durable in the ground. It is too irregular and 

 drooping in its first years of growth for a good street tree. 

 There are a number planted on one road on the Santa Anita 

 ranch. Some I planted very close together at the bridge 

 approaches on Nevada avenue produce a pleasing effect. 

 Splendid giant single specimens exist at Ellwood, near Santa 

 Barbara, and one stands in the center of a minor street 

 parallel to and between Fair Oaks and Orange Grove ave- 

 nues, Pasadena. 



