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to other trees, etc., in the Garden. For instance there is one very large 

 Spathodea near the Talipot Palm which requires to be cut in small quanti- 

 ties, so as to prevent any injury to the Palm. This tree of itself to cut down 

 and remove would cost 15 to 16 shillings; and in fact all the trees that 

 require to be dealt with in the same way would cost as much/' 



APPENDIX II.— REPORTS ON EUCALYPTUS PLANTS. 



Col. Brown, Up- Park Camp. — The majority of these plants seem to 

 be very good and adapted to the purpose for which they were planted, 

 with the exception of the corymbose^ tereticornis and crebra. They are 

 all thriving very well but the three specimens above-named do not ap- 

 pear to grow very fast — all these are planted in the gully that takes all 

 the drainage from Camp. [E. citriodora], 



Mr. W. R. Thomas, Kingston. — The plants have done remarkably- 

 well, One is now 18ft. high and is about to blossom. I consider the 

 growth extraordinary as compared with other trees planted at the same 

 time. [E. microtheca]. 



Mr. M. M. Alexander, Kingston. — The plants sent me last July and 

 the others have grown at my residence " Mentmore," Kingston, and are 

 a perfect picture to look at. I shall be glad to show them to you at 

 any time. They are in my garden and I must say I never gave them 

 much attention. They have grown very high and are much admired. 



Dr. Gr. J. Neish, Plantain Garden River. — The Eucalyptus plants put 

 in at Hordley Hospital are not doing well, the hill-side being rocky 

 and soil very shallow. About six appear to be growing fairly well. Four 

 of the number which I planted about my house in dry alluvial soil are 

 thriving and growing very tall and strong. [E. rost'ata]. 



Mrs Hall, Manchioneal. — I regret to say that only three of the 24 

 lived. Those three are now about 5 feet high and quite strong. I at- 

 tribute their deaths to my ignorance in the totally different system of 

 cultivation needed in Jamaica to that of England. Now that I have 

 learnt this, the last 48 lately planted are quite a success. [E. micro- 

 theca]. 



Mr. W. C. Groves. Bath. — The Eucalyptus robusta are doing well. 



Mr. R. P. Simmonds, Port Maria. — Eucalyptus citriodora 20 feet, 

 planted about six months before the others. Microtheca 13 to 18 feet. 

 Robusta 8 to 14 feet high. All growing well. 



Rev. C. Barron, Annotto Bay. — The Eucalyptus plants arrived safely, 

 and in due time were transferred to the ground from the Bamboo pots. 

 Unfortunately however, a dry season followed the planting, which re- 

 sulted in the loss of a large number of the plants. [E. citriodora]. 



Several of the survivors are growing splendidly, and others are more 

 slow in growth. I had hoped to raise a large number for distribution 

 around the Bay but in this unfortunately I am disappointed. 



Mr. W. G. Nunes, St. Ann's Bay. — I regret to say that every one o£ 

 the Eucalyptus plants you sent me were destroyed, I believe by crabs 

 which infest the swampy land near the sea beach in St. Ann's Bay in 

 which I planted them. 



Mr. M. Hart, Laughlands, — Of the twelve Eucalyptus plants sup- 

 plied in 1894, seven are growing all strong and healthy, six are about 

 six feet high and one quite 12 feet, this one may be accounted for by 

 being planted in rather marshy soil. [E. microtheca]. 



