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border, or in avenues, it also offers a striking effect. It stands 

 clipping well. It grows quicker than the Olive tree, the gathering 

 of its fruits, which are knocked down by means of long poles, is 

 easier, while the pods can be bagged or stored away for a long time 

 without loss. In the proximity of orchards, it moreover offers over 

 the Olive tree the marked advantage of being pretty free from 

 insect pests, and more especially the black scale that finds in the 

 Olive a favourite host plant. 



The Carob trees are propagated from seeds, which, being hard, 

 require soaking for a few days. When the germ begins to show 

 they are sown in seed beds, preferably in ground with a hard sub- 

 soil, so as to check the downward growth of the tap root. After a 

 fortnight or so, the young plants begin to show. When about 

 three feet high, in one year or two, they are transplanted in a 

 nursery, cut back to 12 inches or so, and the year after they are 

 grafted with scions from some prolific tree, bearing large pods. 

 Unless this is done, many of the trees will prove sterile. The 

 frequent unisexuality of the flowers accounts to some extent for the 

 want of productiveness in fruit of this plant when few trees exist, 

 or this sterility may be traceable to insufficiency of lime or other 

 substances in the soil. After a year or two in the nursery the 

 young trees are planted out, suckers rubbed off, and after two or 

 three years cultivation will yield three to four cwts. of fruit without 

 further cultivation. 



BRACHYCHITON POPULNETJS. From Gippsland to Southern 

 G-ippsland a splendid avenue tree, recommended for its pyramidal 

 growth, evergreen shining foliage, somewhat variable in shape, 

 and short stout branches which render it almost wind proof. 

 Succeeds well on rocky and dry ground, and is comparatively easy 

 to transplant even when of good size. Leaves eaten by pasture 

 animals. Allied to the " plane-tree ; " makes a gorgeous display of 

 coral-like inflorescences. 



THE BITTER ORANGE (Citrus Bigaradia). Very suitable for 

 avenue planting in the towns of the citrus belt, and much used for 

 that purpose in Southern Europe, where it is trained with a clear 

 stem 6ft. to 8ft. high, and a regularly shaped crown. Very attrac- 

 tive on account of its beautiful aromatic foliage, delicious blossoms, 

 which furnish the Neroli oil, and golden fruit, the rind of which is 

 used for candied orange-peel and marmalade; produced all the year 

 round. Furnishes one of the best stocks for orange grafting. 



CYPRESS (Cupressus macrocarpa, Hartweg, and C. Lambertiana, 

 Gordon). California, grows in the granite, as well as sandstone- 

 formation, sometimes in Sphagnum-moors. A beautiful and shady 

 tree attaining to a height of 150ft., with a stem of 9ft. in circum- 

 ference ; is one of the quickest growing of all conifers, even in 

 poor dry soils ; does well also on limestone-soil and is one of the 

 best shelter-trees on sea-sands, naturally following the coast-line, 

 never extending many miles from the shore in temperate localities. 

 Not to be planted in places, where stagnant humidity exists under 

 ground, nor where the soil is but little penetrable. 



