345 So. Main Street, Los Angeles, California 
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Eucalyptus Seeds 
HEADQUARTERS FOR EUCALYPTUS SEEDS 
I am headquarters for eucalyptus seeds, having the most extensive trade in this line of any firm in the 
United States, and supplying the largest planters here as well as exporting to many foreign countries. The 
Eucalyptus Timber Corporation, the Pratt Eucalyptus Investment Company and many other large planters 
have contracted with me for their entire supply of eucalyptus seeds for a number of years. To this depart- 
ment of my business I have devoted much study and pereonal attention. My seeds are carefully collected 
by my own men, under my personal supervision, from selected specimen trees, and are both true to name 
and of the very best stock obtainable. So extensive has become my trade in this line that a trifle under 
1800 lbs. was the total amount of seed thus collected in one season. For a few species of which the seed 
cannot yet be obtained in California I am in direct communication with the most reliable authorities in 
Australia who collect the seeds for me in their native habitats. 
1 noodore Payne and men yathenno uucalyutus seeds 
EUCALYPTUS TIMBER CULTURE 
HEQ,UIREMEIVTS. The requirements for propagating 
tlie seedlings are: 
A lath house or lath or cloth covered frames to 
shade the seed beds during the day. When growing 
on a large scale it will pay in every case to build 
a lath house. Shallow boxes or flats; a good light 
soil and water convenient for sprinkling. 
FLATS OR BOXES. These should be 3 inches deep and 
any size desired, though the size most convenient 
and generally used is about 20 inches square and 
will hold 100 plants. Some are using 18 inches 
square, the latter being mostly made of shakes 
sawed in half, using inch pieces for ends and split 
shakes for the sides. This makes a box 16x18x3 
Inches inside measurement and does very well. 
SOIL. This should be a good light, sandy loam passed 
through a screen so as to take out any lumps or 
stones. If good leaf mold is procurable a small quan- 
tity of this may be mixed with the soil, as it helps 
to retain the moisture. 
SEED. Procure the best seed possible from the most 
reliable source; it does not pay to use cheap seed 
for by getting seed not true to name the loss cannot 
be calculated. 
QUANTITY OP SEED. The quantity of seed to pro- 
duce a given number of trees varies according to 
the species, as a fair average, however, 1 lb. should 
produce 20,000 seedlings, though as high as 30,000 
has been known. 
TIME OF SOWING. This varies somewhat according 
to the locality and the species to be sown. The 
usual time, however, is in June, or early .July, and 
seedlings from these sowings will be ready to set out 
in the field by the following February; later sow- 
ings are also made in August and early part of 
September and these seedlings will be ready to plant 
out in April. 
SOWING THE SEED. There are two methods of sow- 
ing the seed, viz.: In seed beds and seed boxes. 
For raising limited quantities tlie latter method is 
preferable. Fill the boxes carefully with the pre- 
pared soil, smooth off the surface and press down 
lightly with a board, tamping it slightly in the 
corners. On this smooth surface, sow the seed 
broadcast, using about % oz. of seed to a box, then 
cover the seed with tlie same kind of soil. This 
should be sifted over the surface through a fine- 
meshed sieve and not be more tlian Vg of an inch 
deep. The boxes should then be placed in the lath 
house or in some place where they can be covered 
with lath or cloth covered frames. The soil must 
be kept moist at all times, the watering should be 
done with a pot or a loose hose-nozzle so fine as 
to produce nothing but a spray. 
As soon as the young seedlings show through the 
surface great care must be exercised in watering 
or the seedlings will "damp off." Always water in 
the morning and never at night. When raising the 
seedlings in commercial quantities, sowing in beds 
is often practiced. The soil for these should be 
prepared in the same way as already mentioned. 
The surface smoothed out evenly and the seed sown 
and covered as already mentioned, after this cover 
beds with burlap stretched over a wooden frame 
work. This may be laid right ' 
kept moist. As soon as the_sepdl 
the crust of the ground llii.s s 
little at first and sr:ulu;ill\ m. 
above the ground. As ihc s.m-.II 
stronger tliis covering; may lie 
so that lliev will liardon l.i thp I 
on the ground and 
ings break through 
hould be raised a 
until it is a foot 
ings gi-ow and get 
gradually removed 
