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use of improper fertilizers. The plants when young 
must be carefully weeded , great c ire being required 
not to move or injure the cucumbers. One or two 
ounces of seed will plant 100 bills and the cucunihers 
may be picked in 50 to 75 days- 
Mdons. — The cultivation of melons is very similar 
to that of cucumbers, but more heat, lit;ht and air 
are necessary, and not so much moisture. The viues 
may be pinched back if they run too far. Musk melons 
require 2 ounces tu 100 hills, water melons 4 ounces, 
Muf-k melons ripen in abeut 100 days ; water melons 
in 120 days. 
Egg-plant or the French Aubergine, — This plant will 
thrive in any good soil. The seed is sown in boxes or 
beds, and when about an inch or two high, planted 
out in beds 3 feet apart in rows 3 feet apart. They 
require ahelter and much water. Thinning out im- 
proves the size of the fruit. It is a good plan to graft 
the egg-plants on the common shushumber. This 
method may be learnt on application to Mr. Jordan at 
the Grove Experiment Station. 
Pumpleina. — Can be planted like squashep, but at 
double or treble the distance, and only one plant to a 
bill, 
Beet ffcof.— Should be sown from July to January, at 
intervals, so as to secure a succession, in a sandy soil 
in drills i5 inches apart. The young plants are thinned 
out to allow 9 inches, Thti seed might be soaked in 
lukewarm water for some hours and, while still moist 
sown li to 2 inches deep. 
A valuable pamphlet (No 8) entitled Cultivation of 
Vegetables in Barbados published by the Imperial 
Department of Agriculture should be in the hands 
of every small owner It costs only 2d and is 
obtainable in this island, with other publications of 
the Department, from Mr. VV. Lilewellyn Wall, Plj- 
mouih : and elsewhere from the liocal Agents of the 
Department. 
{To he Continued.) 
ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF 
EUCALYPTUS. 
By R. T. Bakeb, F. L. S., Cubator, Technological 
Museum, Sydney. 
\l<rom the Proceedings of the Linnean Society 
Of New South Wales, 1900, Fart 4, October 31st.\ 
E. INTEEMEDIA, Sp. nOV. 
"Bloodwood" or " Bastard _Bloodwood," 
(Plate xlvi., fig. 1.) 
A medium-sized tree with a light brown fibrous bark- 
Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, about 6 inches longi 
and l-lg inches wide or more, pale on the underside ; 
lateral veins oblique, fine, numerous, parallel ; inter- 
marginal vein quite close to the edge. 
Flowers mostly in large terminal corymbs. Calyx 
tnrbicate, 4 lines in diameter, 3 lines long, on a 
pedicle of about 4 lines. Ovary flat-topped. Stamens 
all fertile; anthers parallel, opening by longitudinal 
elite. 
Fruits urceolate, about 6 lines long, 4-5 lines in dia- 
meter, contracted at the orifice to some times 2 lines ; 
rim thin, capsule sunken. 
Ilab. — Ballina (W. Bauerlen) ; Richmond and Cla- 
rence Rivers (Rev. Dr, W'oolls); Barney's Wharf, Cam- 
be warra (W. Bauerlen, P. Macpherson). 
A tree olo^ely allied to both E. conjmbosa, Sm., 
find E. exiniia, Schau. It has, however, always been 
considered as the northern form of the former epecies, 
but ill botanical characters it more nearly resembles 
the latttr, and especially E. maculata, llook. The 
chemical constituents and optical features place it 
midway between the two former. It differs from 
Ecorijiiibosa in the nature of the timber, bark, oil 
and fruits which hare uot the marked recurved rim of 
that apeciei. 
Prom E. eximia, it differs in having pedicellate 
fruits, a stringy flaky bark, a pinkish timber, and in its 
chemical constituents. 
Dr. Wolls was cognisant of the differences existing 
between these species, for in his " Flora of Australia ' 
(p. 238) he states:— "At the Clarence and Rich- 
mond Rivers the ' Bloodwood ' prevails to a great 
extent, and the workmen reckon two kinds— the one 
with smooth and the other with rough bark. . , It 
seems probable that the IVIountain 'Bloodwood' 
(E eximia), which overhangs the valley of the Grose, 
is different from the Bloodwood of the north." As 
stated above, other botanist have always regarded the 
northern " Bloodwood " as identical with the Sydney 
a .d southern " Bloodwood " ; but Dr. Wolls is the only 
one who connected it (the no.hern one) with E. eximia, 
Schau., and recent observations also show it to have 
afiS^oities with that species. 
Its physical charaoters, however, are so evenly 
balanced between the two that it is decided to give it 
Boecifio rank. 
'It diff rs from E. terminalis, F. v. M., the "Blood- 
wood " of the interior, in its bark, timber and oil ; and 
from E. trachyphloia in its larger fruits, bark and 
chemical constituent.". 
Its fruits are exactly identical in size and shape with 
those of E. maculata, but ic resembles this spotted gum 
in no other characters. 
This tree is constant throughout an extensive rangp 
as It was found many years ago at Barney's Wharf! 
Cambewarra, by W. Bauerlen, who forwarded speci- 
mens to the late Biron von Mueller, who considered 
It a hybrid between E. cori/mbosa, and E. maculata 
but of course he only had dried material upon which to 
base his opinion. 
The timber of both the southern and northern 
trees is similar in colour, hardness and other 
characters, and the chemical constituents of the oil 
show no variation. 
Timber.— A pale-coloured timber, hard, strait- 
grained, and easy to work. It is much closer in 
texture than the Sydney Bloodwood, E. corymbosa, Sm 
Ihe figure is occasionally not unlike that of E. 
maculata, Hook. Gum veins are not infrequent It 
is considered a goodj durable timber, and superior 
to that of E. corymbosa, Sm. It has quite a metallic 
ring when the fractured edges of a piece are rubbed 
together. 
Oil —The yield from this oil is -125 per cent 
It consists very largely of piuene, £8 per cent of 
the oil distilling below 170° C; only a trace of 
eucalyptol could be detected. The specific gravity 
of the crude oil @ lb° 0. = -8829. The specific rotation 
of the crude oil M D=+ 11-2°. This oil differs 
from the oil of the Bloodwood of the Sydney district 
inasmuch as the latter is laevo-rotatory to about the' 
same extent. The rotation of the oils from E. 
*>rymhosa, Sm , and E. eximia, Schau., and this species 
varies in about eqral proportions, that of the oil of 
this species baiug about half-way between those of E, 
corymbosa, and E. eximia, although the constituents 
of the oils of the three tpecies differ but slightly, being 
largely pinene. 
E. angophoko:des, sp. nov. 
Apple-Top Box." 
(Syn, E. Bridgesiana, Baker, partim.) 
(Plate xlvi., figs. 4a, 4&, 4c.) 
A medium-sized tree with a white box bark persistent 
to the ultimate branchlets. 
Sucker leaves ovate-acuminate, cordate, shortly 
petiolate, glaucous, variable in size from 1 to 3 or 
4 inches long, and I to 3 inches broad; venation 
indistinct on both sides. Leaves of mature trees 
narrow-lanceolate, about 6 inches long, acuminate, 
not shining, of the same colour on both sides; 
venation finely marked, oblique, spreading; intra- 
marginal vein removed from the edge. Oil glands 
numerous. 
Peduncles axillary, 3 to 4 lines long, slightly com" 
presged, bearing a few flowers, Calys hemisji'.iedca,' 
