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Plalanus orientalis and P. orientalis acerifolia (b, c) have been 

 extensively planted of recent years near towns as avenue trees and in 

 groves, and also in gardens. In the latter place it certainly gives a 

 good shade in a few years, but it is not in any sense a garden tree. 

 The trees I saw were mostly 20 to 40 feet in height and doing well, but 

 I think they will be uprooted by the winds as they grow taller. 



Pseudotsuga Douglasii (c). — Rare, but making fine timber in the 

 middle zone. 



Quercus Robur (b). — Common on the shores of Arosa Bay, and in 

 the lower valley of the Rio Umia. When these trees have reached 

 a height of 9 to 12 feet they are unceremoniously decapitated. From 

 near the crown they put out a few straggling boughs, and these 

 are cut off in turn as soon as they are suitable for vine stakes. No 

 doubt these stakes are durable, but very few are anything approach- 

 ing straight, and one tree will not average more than a couple of 

 usable stakes every seven or eight years. Hence these oak groves can 

 scarcely be profitable, and they present, moreover, the most miserable 

 appearance. 



Sequoia sempervirens (b). — I only saw a few specimens at Sotomayor. 

 These were already 60 feet high and flourishing. 

 Taxodium distichum (b). — Rare. 



Thuja gigantea (b). — Fine trees about 60 feet high, but very few of 

 them. 



From a cursory examination of these forests, groves, and gardens 

 it would appear that several valuable timber trees flourish in the 

 climate of Galicia, but that no attempt has yet been made to grow any 

 of them (with the solitary exception of the Eucalypti) on a commercial 

 scale. Doubtless the trouble is that such trees cannot be obtained in 

 Spain in the planting stage, and that the absurd Phylloxera restrictions 

 make it very difficult and expensive to import them. The Eucalypt 

 alone are so obtainable from the fact that seedlings in quantity 

 spring up without any care or expense under the old trees planted 

 forty years ago. Yet, from what I saw, it is quite clear that con- 

 siderable areas could be alforested with the Californian Red Wood 

 (Sequoia sempervirens), Eucalyptus arnygdalina, and E. marginata * 

 [Jarrah Wood], and would prove a source of great wealth. 



Moreover, for the immediate necessities of the vineyards, there 

 are many trees which would supply vine poles of a more suitable 

 character and far quicker than Pinus maritima or the oaks. 



* These trees grow freely from seed, and would presumably flourish on the 

 Atlantic and Mediteranean coast wherever E. Globulus does well. 



