THE EUCALYPTS AS EXOTICS. 19 
During the intervening quarter century Mr. Cooper has continued 
the extensive planting of Eucalypts. He has set them in canyons 
and on steep hillsides, has utilized them for a forest cover, for wind- 
breaks, for shade on avenues, for sources of timber and wood, as 
well as for ornament, thus furnishing the country an object lesson 
of what the tree will do for an appreciative planter. He now has 
about 200 acres of his ranch north of Santa Barbara covered with for- 
ests of these trees. Here is the best place in America to see a large 
variety of Eucalypts grown as forest trees. Several varieties to be 
seen only as botanical or ornamental specimens elsewhere can be seen 
here growing by the acre. Mr. Cooper’s groves have been and will 
continue to be valuable sources of information as to the behavior, 
when growing in forests, of several species not yet generally planted 
in America. 
A great impetus has been given the planting of Eucalypts in the 
‘southwestern United States by the labors of Hon. Abbot Kinney, of 
Los Angeles. As chairman of the California Board of Forestry from 
1886 to 1888 he rendered a great service to the State in causing the 
planting of thousands of Eucalypts within her borders. <A large per- 
centage of the trees of species other than Hucalyptus globulus, now 
growing in the Southwest, are from plants distributed during his 
administration. Mr. Kinney has ever since been an enthusiastic stu- 
dent and planter of trees of this genus, and has written more upon 
Eucalypts than any other American. In southern California espe- 
cially, and in Arizona also, the planting of these trees has been extended 
very much by his work. 
During recent years the planting of Fiealy pts has been stimulated by 
the labors of Mr. A. Campbell-Johnston, of Garvanza, Cal., an ardent 
student and admirer of these trees, who boy his srilties and his example 
has done much to attract attention to the merits of the genus. The 
firm with which he is connected at South Pasadena, Cal., is rendering 
a service of incalculable value in furnishing for planting authentically 
named seedling Kucalypts. Mr. Campbell-Johnston is also conducting 
at his ranch the most extensive cultural test of species of Eucalyptus 
that has been made in America. 
It is through the labors of such men as have been mentioned, and 
of many others, that the Kucalypts have become disseminated and 
recognized and very generally planted throughout California. The 
landscape of many parts of the State has been completely changed 
by the growth of these trees. Over much of the State they are the 
principal wind-break, shade, and fuel trees, and the number of useful 
purposes they serve is continually increasing. Without the Eucalypts 
California would be a very different State, and their value to the Com- 
monwealth is beyond calculation. 
From California the planting of Eucalypts extended into Arizona, 
