20 FOBEST CULTUEE AND 



to continue on growing in the same ratio for sixty- 

 four years. My last planting was June 25th. The 

 seeds were sown six months before. These trees were 

 purposely kept back — stunted, I may say — as I 

 desired to transplant them only after the disappear- 

 ance of grasshoppers. From the 25th of June these 

 trees, averaging six to eight inches in height, have 

 now reached six feet (or a great many of them) in the 

 short space of five months. The greatest possible 

 results have been obtained on every part of my place. 

 I have experimented on two steep hill-sides, so stony 

 and focky that plowing or preparing the ground was 

 impossible ; putting them in with a pick, without 

 water, and after the rains were over. On one hill- 

 side I cultivated with the hoe as best I could; on the 

 other did nothing — the mustard, in some places, grow- 

 ing up around the trees seven to eight feet high. 

 The trees cultivated have done very much better than 

 the others. "Whether this kind of planting is practi- 

 cable can only be determined at the end of the next 

 year. 



It is claimed for the Eucalyptus that it resists Sum- 

 mer dryness, and profits by the rains of the Autumn, 

 Winter, and Spring, yherever the mildness of the 

 climate permits it to vegetate without interruption. 

 I have made no other special observations with regard 

 to the growth of this tree, excepting on Gen, Naglee's 

 place, in San Jose, where I found trees, ten years old, 

 eighteen inches in diameter, and, I should think, 

 eighty to ninety feet high. <'|Many species of the 

 Eucalyptus are, in their native country, truly gigantic 

 trees. A Eucalyptus colossea has measured nearly four 

 hundred feet in height, and a Eucalyptus amygdalina 



