EUCALTPTUS HOWITTIANA. 



shallowly sown (on open nursery-ground, or should the species be a rare or select one in wood 

 boxes or seed-pans) germinate quickly ; when about hand-high the seedlings should be trans- 

 planted in the nursery, to check the downward growth of the roots and to promote the formation 

 of lateral rootlets, fit to retain some soU while moving such seedlings to places of permanency. 

 The operation of transplanting should be carried out in the cool season, best under a cloudy sky, 

 and the seedlings ought not to get dried up in any way during the process of removal, regular 

 daUy watering for some time afterwards beiag requisite. Heyer's bore-spade is an apt 

 implement for lifting the young plants from the seed-beds with some soil for final transplanting. 

 If growing Eucalyptus-seedlings are to be conveyed far away, it can be effected for distances 

 reached within a few days by mere packing in closed cases without much soil ; for longer 

 distances they must be transmitted well established in pots or bamboo-pieces. Thus far the 

 Eucaljrpts hold the same position as most pines or other coniferous trees, and stand at much 

 disadvantage — so far as transit is concerned — ^to deciduous trees, being not transferable in a 

 somewhat upgrown state ; nor can Eucalypts in considerably advanced growth be lifted readily 

 for translocation anywhere even with a solid mass of soil. But the distribution of Eucalypts by 

 means of seeds is the most easy imaginable, not only on account of the ready conservancy of the 

 latter, but also because of their minuteness ; thus much greater facilities exist for creating 

 Eucalyptus vegetation in far distant lands with an apt clime, than for rearing almost any other 

 kinds of huge hardwood-trees. 



ExPLA>-ATiON OP A^AlTTic DETAILS. — 1, lid ; 2, an unexpanded flower, the lid remored ; 3, an nnexpanded flower, 

 dissected longitudinally ; 4, some outer stamens expanded ; 5 and 6, front- and back-view of an anther, with portion of 

 filament ; 7, style and stigma ; 8 and 9, longitudinal and transTerse section of fruit ; 10 and 11, sterile and fertile seeds ; 

 12, portion of a leaf ; aU figures magnified, but to various extent. 



