174 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
ical experts, that it will prove a safeguard against the 
spread of yellow-fever, as it has been seen that, since 
these trees have been planted in the city of New Or- 
leans, yellow-fever has not become epidemic in that usu- 
ally yellow-fever section.” 
It is reported a very unhealthy railroad-station in the 
Department of Var, southern France, has been made 
healthy by a grove of forty eucalyptus-trees. 
Efforts are now being made to introduce this wonder- 
ful tree into Ceylon as an antidote to jungle-fever, and 
it is also being carried over in large numbers to the jun- 
gles of India. The English have given it great atten- 
tion, but the most intelligent of English tree-growers 
believe it too delicate to stand the cold water of English 
springs. The eucalyptus seems destined to make the 
tour of the world, but it will be found to grow best in 
the La Plata states and in California. Referring to our 
own country, planters have met with the most wonder- 
ful success in cultivating it on the Pacific coast. One 
gentleman, who planted several thousand trees at Wil- 
mington, California, says: “ When set out they were 
only from three to five inches in height, and in one year 
they grew six and eight feet high.” Another gentle- 
man, the editor of the Hern County Courier, who owns 
a farm on which he is experimenting with eucalyptus- 
trees, wrote: “I have given the eucalyptus what I re- 
gard as a reasonably fair test on my own farm, This 
farm is cultivated by two Chinese families, one of the 
families near the north and the other near the south end 
of the land, about three fourths of a mile apart. The 
localities both parties inhabit are favorable to the devel- 
opment of malaria. The soil is rich, moist, and teeming 
with vegetable life, and the free sweep of the prevailing 
wind is obstructed by the intervention of dense thickets. 
As might be expected, they have every year, during the 
heated term, suffered from malarial fever. Last winter 
we determined to test the virtues of eucalyptus. In Feb- 
