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but it was probably in connection with his presence as New South Wales Commissioner 
nt the Paris Exhibition of 1855, when he was given the Legion of Honour. Bee note 
from my pen in regard to him in J&urn. Roy. Soc. N.8.W., xlii, 111 (1903). 
He was one of the best horticulturists of his time, and there is no doubt that 
ho would introduce some seeds of the national genus, although, being a reserved man, 
he would not say much about it, 
Now we come to 
PLANCHON, J. E . " L E .icalyptus gtobulus au point de vue botanique 
cconomique et medical." Revue de Deux Mondes, 1875 (translated into English by the 
U.S. Dept. of Agric., 1875, and published by the Department with an introduction.) 
This pamphlet is excessively rare, and the Department had the kindness to forward 
me a photographic copy or photostat of it. It is referred to below as " Planchon." 
RAMEL. " Sur les Eucalyptus oleosa et globulus." Bull, de la 8oc. d'Acdim. 
de Paris, 1861. 
" L'Eucalyptus globulus de Tasmania." Rev. 'Maritime et Colonicde, 1801. 
" L'Eucalyptus globulus." Butt, de la 8oc. d'Acdim. de Paris, 1862. 
. . . . the deeds of two men whose memory should be bound to the name of Eucalyptus, wherever 
tliii t ee thrives as a source of public wealth and salubri y. Ferdinand Mueller and Ramcl. In the his.ory 
of thj fu lire naturalisation of the Euca'yptus, Mueller is the savant who justly calculated the future o 
'the tree, traced it in its itineracy, and predicted its destiny. Rainel is the enthusiastic amateur who haa 
thrown body and mind into the mis-iion of propagating it. Both have faith, but one is a prophet, the other 
an apostle, and, in the noble confraternity of services, public gratitude will not separate the names that 
are bound together by friendship .... 
llainel, who possesses an ardent and unreserved nature, a zeal that grows out of a profound faith 
in the future of an idea, owes it partly to chance that he became a patron of the Eucalyptus. In 1854, 
while a trader in Australia, he one day visited the botanical garden [Melbourne ?] from curiosity, where, 
in a by-path, his attention was attracted to the Blue Gum, which struck him by its elegance and beauty. 
Almost a stranger to botany, he says he knew neither the form nor name of the tree ; but, from the moment 
he saw it, it became his fixed idea, and formed the tie which binds him so intimately with Mueller, and his 
constant relations with the Museum of Paris, the Society of Acclimatisation, the gardens, savants, and 
amateurs .... He sees his beloved tree covering the mountains of Algeria, making the marshes 
salubrious, chasing away fevers, and replacing the stupefying fumigations of hashish by salutary and 
odorous cigars. The dream of yesterday has almost become the reality of to-day; for no tree has in so 
short a space of time introduced into the forest vegetation of Algeria so picturesque .an element, or is aa 
useful and as promising for the future. (Planchon.) 
TROTTIEB, N. 
Soon after, N. Trottier. another colonist, proved his faith in the new tree by his works. An ardent 
pl.iuter, he regarded this tree as possessing a forest substance capable one day of enriching the colony 
[Algiers], and he took, for the motto of one of his writings, the following ambitious words : " The wood of 
the Eucalyptus will be the great product of Algeria." Carrying his confidence still further, he saw tbo 
dassrt retreating before this colonized tree, and speculating upon the incontestable fact that the forest 
created humidity, and changed the hygrometrical regime of a country, and remembering besides thu 
subterraneous sheets of water beneath the arid surface of this region, he boldly named another pamphlet 
' The Wooded Dese t and Colonies." There may b: something Utopian in this illusion, and indifferent 
minds may conclude that the writer's language is so assured and positive as to create suspicion; but 
enthusiasm has its price where its object is to urge opinion towards a useful end, and, if the pioneers of n 
new path are doomed to disippointment, their mistakes will serve to open the way to the prudent an..t 
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