LUTHER BURBANK 
of eucalyptus which have been brought to Cali- 
fornia from Australia and have proved a wonder- 
ful addition to the ranks of our ornamental and 
timber trees. 
Everyone who visits California marvels at the 
eucalyptus, and those of us who watch it year 
after year marvel equally, because this tree has 
capacity for growth that seems little less than 
magical. No other trees, perhaps, ever seen in 
America, with the exception of the hybrid walnuts, 
have such capacity to add to their stature and 
girth year by year as has the eucalyptus. 
Moreover the eucalyptus may be cut down for 
timber, its trunk severed only a few inches above 
the ground; and it will send forth shoots that dart 
into the air and transform themselves into new 
trunks, each seeming to strive to rival the old one. 
From the roots of the fallen giant spring a galaxy 
of new giants, and each new shoot assumes the 
proportions of a tree with almost unbelievable 
celerity. 
Add that the wood of the eucalyptus, notwith- 
standing its rapid growth, is of the very hardest, 
and the remarkable character of this importation 
from the Southern Hemisphere will be more 
clearly realized. 
Unfortunately the eucalyptus is sensitive to 
cold; otherwise it would at once offer a solution of 
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