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of live oaks in the cemetery drive at Savannah for the 

 same purpose would be an equally barbarous vulgarity. 

 Nor would a personal preference for the oak excuse the 

 cutting of ancient elms in a New England village to plant 

 acorns. 



Some day we may hope that ignorance in road tree 

 matters will be less, and that where it does exist a check 

 will be found in an honest, firm and efficient adminis- 

 tration of the public interests. 



The timber of the Karri, under Australian experiments, 

 was found tough, even stronger than English oak, but is 

 reported much affected with star shakes. It is one of our 

 most rapid growers. 



Dr. Aberg, in his experiments on the Rio de la Plata, 

 Argentine, found the Karri the fastest grower of any 

 species, with corymbosa and globulus second, and leucox- 

 3 r lon and siderophloia third. 



In my plantations at Santa Monica I found the Gunnii 

 the fastest grower for the first few years. In the San Ga- 

 briel Valley, in the earliest plantation of Eucalyptus near 

 the present East San Gabriel Hotel, the blue gums are 

 broad spreading and very large, some nearly 200 feet. 

 Amongst them is one Eucalyptus Gunnii, thrifty, but not 

 over 50 feet high. The trees are all on a roadway. 



Thus it will be seen that the fastest growing trees, such 

 as the acacias, grevilleas, and of the Eucalypti, Eucalyptus 

 Gunnii amongst others, cannot, from that fact, be relied on to 

 maintain their early, high-growing speed. Eucalyptus 

 globulus is, indeed, a phenomenon in this way and in fav- 

 orable locations will maintain its rapid growth up to eighty 

 or one hundred feet. Its fastest growth is in youtb, while 

 our lovely red live oaks spend their first four or five 



