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The effect of Eucalyptus as a preventive of malaria has no doubt 

 been much over-rated and their culture for this purpose is not 

 recommended, but for general utility there is perhaps no better 

 class of trees more likely to repay with advantage any effort that 

 may be made to naturalize them. Their rapid growth, when once 

 they are well established, is a good recommendation, and the main 

 object should be to establish them on soils and in localities where 

 indigenous trees are absent or inferior in value. 



It is not unlikely that in many cases failure has resulted, because 

 of the difficulty of raising the seeds, the tendency of the seedlings 

 to damp off, and the losses entailed in transplanting. 



The seed of most species is small and requires special care in 

 sowing and watering. It is best to raise the plants in nursery beds, 

 or shallow boxes, and prick them off singly when large enough to 

 handle into bamboo pots. The beginning of the dry season (about 

 October) is perhaps the "most suitable time to sow, and the young 

 plants should be ready for planting out in permanent places in about 

 six months, or during the following rainy season. 



The recognised principle of planting thickly in order to induce 

 straight growth may be well applied here, thinning out according to 

 development. At almost every stage the trees would be useful for 

 some purpose — cover, firewood, poles, &c. 



The literature on the Eucalypts is somewhat extensive, and the 

 following list contains some of the more important works. 



Hef. — L'Eucalyptus de L' Accroissement et de valeur Progressive 

 de L'Eucalyptus, Trottier, pp. 1-16 (Typog. et Lithog. a Bouyer, 



Algeria, 1871). Eucalyptographia : A Descriptive Atlas of the 



Eucalypts of Australia and the Adjoining Islands, Baron von 



Mueller, (Trtibner & Co., London, 1879-1881). " Eucalyptus oil," 



in Useful Native PI. Australia, Maiden, pp. 255-275. " Eucalyptus 



Timbers," I.e. pp. 127-529 (Triibner & Co., London, 1889). " On 



the so-called Eucalyptus Honey," Anderson Stuart, in Pharm. 



Journ. [3] xxi. 1890, pp. 513-518 & pp. 522-524. " Eucalyptus," 



Abbot Kinney, U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau of Forestry, Bull, No. 11, 



1895, pp. 23-28. " Eucalyptus timber for Street-Paving," in Kew 



Bull. 1897, pp. 219-221. Eucalypts Cultivated in the United 



States, McClatchie, U.S. Dept. of Agric. Bureau of Forestry, Bull 

 No. 35, 1902, pp. 1-106, illustrated — 91 plates, and a Bibliography . 



" Eucalyptus," in Man. Ind. Timb. Gamble, pp. 352-354 (1902). 



" Blue Gum," Eucalyptus Globulus, in Kew Bull. 1903, pp. 1-10. 



" Les Eucalyptus et leurs usages," in Les PI. Utiles du Congo, 



De Wildeman, i. 1903, Art. xv. pp. 175-198. "The Culture and 



Uses of the Species of Eucalyptus," in West Indian Bull. iv. 



1903, pp. 145-166. " Eucalypts in the West Indies," I.e. pp. 166- 



175. " Eucalyptus Oils," in Bull. Imp. Inst. ii. 1904, pp. 140-145 ; 



I.e. pp. 215-217 ; I.e. iii. 1905, pp. 1-6.— — Eucalypts, Pinchot, U.S. 

 Dept. Agric. Forest Service, Circ. No. 59, Jan. 1907, pp. 1-6 ; revised, 

 Oct. 1907, pp. 1-13, giving E. Globulus— Uses, Methods of Propaga- 

 tion, Planting, Cultivation, Cost of Planting & Returns ; " Sugar 

 Gum " (E. corynocalyx) ; " Lemon Gum " (E. citriodora) ; and 



" Grey Gum " (E. tereticornis). " Eucalyptus in California," 



Ingham, Univ. of California, Agric. Exp. Station, Bull. No. 196, 1908, 



pp. 29-112, illustrated. " Eucalyptus in the West Indies," in West 



Indian Bull. x. 1909, pp. 125-129. "The Blue Gum and other 



Introduced trees on the Nilgiris," in Report on the Forests of British 



