176 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
Los Angeles propose purchasing land at thirty dollars 
per acre, and the cost of séed, planting, etc., will proba- 
bly average twenty-five cents per tree. The total for 
six hundred trees and the acre of land will reach one 
hundred and eighty to two hundred dollars. At the 
end of four years, supposing the trees to succeed as the 
average do, the timber will be worth six hundred dol- 
lars. 
“ As these trees stump and spitont rapidly, another such 
yield of timber may be expected in four years more. 
Fuel, as is known, is very expensive in all the great val- 
leys of California. But, with the eucalyptus-tree, the 
farmers seem to have the remedy in their own hands; 
beyond which it affords an opportunity of securing an 
income by the sale of timber for manufacturing purposes.” 
Farmers in California are generally availing them- 
selves of the advantages to be derived from the euca- 
lyptus. Mr. J.H. Byers, who has a farm near the town 
of Colusa, on the west bank of the Sacramento River, 
planted fifty thousand eucalyptus of the narrow-leaved, 
iron-barked variety, which he intends growing as an or- 
chard, the trees being set out about ten feet apart. His 
reason, he says, for planting iron-bark instead of gum- 
tree, or blue-gum, is that they stand the frost better. 
While I was at San Francisco Mr. W. A. Mathews 
came down from Sacramento to purchase fifty thousand 
eucalyptus, of the iron-bark variety, which he said he 
was going to plant on about one hundred acres of rich 
land that had never been broken. He said he would 
raise cotton the first year between the rows of trees, and 
the second year sugar-beets, after which the trees would 
be grown alone, as they would probably cast too much 
shade for the successful cultivation of crops with them. 
Mr. Mathews in one season raised fifty thousand trees 
eight inches high from two and a half pounds of seed 
gathered from trees grown in Oakland, California. This 
is quite important, as it proves the native California seed 
