jo EUCAL YPTUS. 



Prof. Maiden, however, informs me that many valued 

 .-timbers in Australia, such as tallow wood, for instance, 

 .contain little or no kino. 



The leaf is dark green above and paler beneath. The 

 tree in this State varies a good deal, especially in its bark. 

 This is sometimes rough and persistent in large squares, 

 :at other times smoother from partial decortication. Two 

 trees standing together at Scharff & Shorting's Paradise 

 nurseries, vary sufficiently in time of flowering, habit of 

 growth, etc., to have suggested them to be of separate 

 -species. The Karri has never obtained popularity here, 

 though its neglect does not seem deserved. All the speci- 

 mens that I know both on the coast and inland are 

 liandsome rapid growing trees. 



The foliage is greener and more attractive here than 

 that of most species. A Karri in my garden at Santa Mon- 

 ica has made a large tree but it has proved to be brittle. 

 Twice it has lost portions of its top from winds that had 

 no effect on the other sixteen species about it. 



To cap the climax of these accidents an electric com- 

 pany chopped off another considerable portion to suit their 

 sovereign convenience. I do not think that this company 

 will try this sort of thing very soon again. But its con- 

 geners have a free ax for our road trees. Miles of these 

 trees where wire lines run have the mark of their vulgar 

 vandalism. 



Our public officers are as blind to this business as they 

 are to the distressing frequency with which common-souled 

 people have chopped out sections of ornamejital shade trees 

 on our roads. Sometimes these choppings are for firewood, 

 sometimes from a mere whim and at others for the purpose 

 -of the substitution of some other tree. 



