EUCALYPTUS DECIPIENS. 



1. The system of raising Eucalypts in open Bamboo-tubes, according to the Indian method. — In 

 Australia, where Bamboos are as yet not extensively available, tubes of good-sized stems of tbe 

 tall South European Reed (Arundo Donax) are substituted ; they are placed vertically closely 

 together, and are filled with soil for the reception of seeds ; thousands of seedlings can be reared 

 in this way within the space of a few square yards, one to be left in each tube ; the latter require 

 to be mollified by incipient decay through about a year's storage, so that the bursting 

 subsequently in the soil may be facilitated. Seedlings in such tubes can be sent to very far 

 distances quite safely, and their cost would not be more than half a penny each, according to 

 Mr. Brown's calculation. They can thus be planted out in any weather during the cool season. 



2. The system of raising Eucalypts in open nursery-ground and transplanting therefrom. — 

 Seedlings thus raised should be transplanted from the seedbed to a nurserybed, when about a 

 hand high ; this is to be done in the cool season and on a cloudy day, with a view of allotting fair 

 space to the further growth of every individual seedling, and with the object of checking the 

 downward growth of the root and inducing increased formation of lateral rootlets. The best size 

 of transplanting Eucalyptus-seedlings for placing them into permanent positions is a height not 

 much above one foot. So soon as they are lifted, the roots should be dipped into a puddle of 

 earth and water, to protect the tender rootlets against any exsiccation. This final transjilauting 

 process should also be undertaken only in still damp weather, while the sky is cloudy, and not too 

 late in the cool season, and in accordance to this the time of the original sowing and first 

 transplanting should be regulated. E. globulus is now only by this system grown for the 

 South-Australian forests, and the translocation has been carried out with perfect success, even 

 when the plants were already 3 feet high. To prepare the ground for the reception of the seedlings, 

 ploughing and subsoiling is best resorted to. Mr. Brown plants in rows 8 feet apart, and to obtain 

 finally straight and long timber, the young tree-plants are placed by him as near as from 5 to 8 feet. 



3. The system of sowing Eucalypts on ground for permanency. — The soil having been turned 

 over by a subsoil-plough, spaces 4 or 5 feet apart should be prepared for the reception of a few 

 grains of the seeds at each spot, and the seeds be covered up only slightly ; such sowing should 

 be efi"ected as soon as the cool season has set in. 



Captain Campbell-Walker in his treatise " State-Forestry, its aim and object," written some 

 years ago, while this officer was initiating a methodic system of forest-conservancy and forest- 

 rearing in New Zealand, advocates even for Eucalyptus-culture at a forestral scope the system of 

 broadcast-sowing, after the land has been well ploughed and harrowed, the harrow to pass over 

 the ground again after the seeds are sown. Through this ordinary process of sowing, well 

 adapted for larger seeds, necessarily a great proportion of Eucalyptus-seeds must get wasted on 

 account of their minuteness, while on the other hand considerable labor is thus saved otherwise 

 needful for methodic transplanting from nursery-ground ; although even when plants are raised 

 from broadcast-sowing much subsequent attention is still required, to regulate the mutual 

 distances of the plants to some extent by removing seedlings, where they arose too close, and 

 transferring them to patches of ground left too bare. This safe transfer would be facilitated by 

 the use of Heyer's borespade. 



Explanation of Analytic Details. — 1, an imexpanded flower, the lid lifted ; 2, longitudinal section of an 

 - unexpanded flower; 3, some of the outer stamens detached; 4 and 5, front- and back-view of an anther with portion of the 

 filament ; 6, style and stigma ; 7 and 8, transverse and longitudinal section of a fruit ; 9 and 10, fertile and sterile seeds ; 

 11, jjortion of a leaf; all figures magnified, but to various extent. 



