Eucalyptus i <^ 1 5 



Italy, it endured a temperature of i8° Fahr., proving hardier than E. globulus 

 or E. rostrata ; and grew astonishingly fast, attaining a height of 60 ft. in 

 nine years. 



E. regnans, Mueller, closely allied to, if not a variety of, E. amygdalina, did not 

 prosper in Arran^ ; and seedlings were speedily killed at Kinloch Hourn. 



E. Beauckampiana, Treseder, ex Masters, in Gardeners' Chronicle, xxxviii. 3, fig. 3 

 (1905), and xxxix. 174 (1906). This species was raised at Truro by Messrs. Treseder 

 and Co., who inform us that they obtained the seed direct from New South Wales. 

 They consider it to be hardier than the other species in their nursery, having with- 

 stood 20° of frost without injury. Their largest specimen is 30 ft. high and 18 in. 

 in diameter ; but has not yet flowered. This species was identified by Maiden, to 

 whom I sent specimens, with E. Stuartiana^ Mueller, the Apple Eucalyptus of 

 the cool tablelands of Victoria and New South Wales. Coming from this region, it 

 is unlikely to prove very hardy ; and was killed^ in the severe winter of 1908-1909, 

 both at Wisley, where the temperature fell to 7.5° Fahr., and at Myddelton House, 

 Herts, where the thermometer placed on the grass registered — 1° Fahr. There 

 is, however, a tree at Tregothnan, planted eight years, which was bearing fruit and 

 measured 25 ft. high in February 191 1. Another at Mount Usher, which was raised 

 from seed obtained from the Sydney Botanic Garden in 1904, was 20 ft. high and 

 bearing flowers in October 191 1. There are two small trees about 15 ft. high at 

 Menabilly, which are labelled E. Stuartiana ; but differ from E. Beauckampiana in 

 having glaucous foliage. 



E. botryoides, Smith, the Bastard Mahogany of Queensland, New South Wales, 

 and Victoria. A specimen of this planted* in Arran in 1896 grew well for several 

 years, but was ultimately killed by drainage from a manure heap. According to Mr. 

 Birkbeck, this species bears more frost in winter than E. globulus, but less in spring. 

 It was, however, killed at Abbotsbury in 1908. 



E. citriodora. Hooker, a native of Queensland. According to Mr. Birkbeck, 

 this only survived a few years out of doors at Menabilly ; and seedlings were soon 

 killed at Kinloch Hourn. It attained 25 feet at Tregothnan ; but was killed to the 

 ground in a severe winter. 



E.ficifolia^ Mueller, a native of New South Wales. This was reported^ to 

 have flowered in the open air at Cove House, Tiverton, Devon ; but Mr. W. North- 

 Row informs us that this was an error, as the plant is growing in the border of a cool 

 greenhouse. At Monreith, where it was growing on a south-east wall, it was killed ^ 

 in the severe winter of 1908- 1909. 



1 Landsborough, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. k^. 522. In idid. xxiii. 149 (1905). a tree planted in 1892 is reported to 

 have been, though cut by frost, 13 ft. high in 1905. The Rev. Dr. Landsborough informed Mr. Birkbeck that the tree at 

 Rqseneath, referred to E. regnans in Card. Chron. xxvi. 715 (1886), was E. mminalis. 



2 £_ Beauckampiana is erroneously referred by Masters to E. cinerea, Mueller. It is doubtful if the name E. Stuartiana, 

 Mueller, can be retained for the "Apple Eucalyptus," as it was first applied by Mueller to another species. Cf. p. 1645, 

 note 2. 



3 Joum. Roy. Hort. Soc. xxxvi. 374 (1910)- * '^^'^"^- ^"f- ^<"^- ^'^^"- =™"'- '49 (1905)- 



s Figured by J. D. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 7697 (1900), from a specimen which flowered in a cool greenhouse at 

 Arbroath, Scotland. There are two good trees in the Temperate House at Kew. 

 8 Card. Chron. xlii. pp. 376, Suppl. Illust. and 418 (1907). 

 7 Joum. Roy. Hort. Soc. xxxvi. 374 (1910). 



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