Interview with the Trappist Monks at Tre Fontane. 
" We have planted to our certain knowledge 200,000 Eucalyptus trees near 
to and about the Monastery." Some are 75 or 80 feet high. Measured girth, 
between 4 and 5 feet. 
The monks are very pleased with the experiment and speak most highly of the 
change the trees have made in the area. They sell Eucalyptus oil, to which they 
attribute great virtues, but the interviewer thinks " they are on much more solid 
ground when they descant on the efficacy of their trees for draining purposes.'' (Gard, 
Cfiron., 7th January, 1899, p. 1.) 
SCHIMMEL & Co. 
Euealypts in the Roman Cumpagna possess in a high degree the power of drying up marshy districts, 
and, therefore, indirectly provide active mean.* for the reclamation of the land and for combating malaria. 
From this property of the tree it has been assumed that in a corresponding degree the leaves would show 
a comparatively high exhalation. Recent experiments by Griffon (Comp!. re.ml., 138, 157, 1901) have 
proved the error of this assumption; according to these, the exhalation of the Eucalyptus leaves, as 
compared with those of European trees, especially the Willow, Birch, and Ash. is twice to three times less 
powerful. For this reason, the draining action of the Eucalyptus tree, which has given rise to the name 
' Fevertree," must be doubtless attributed chiefly to the property of producing in a very short time an 
abundant foliage. (Schimmel & Company's Report. April-May, 1904. p. 54.) 
Eucalyptus oil is manufactured at Castelvecchio, Italy (E. globulu*). ' (Schimmel & Company's 
Report. April, 1907, p. 52.) 
CYPRUS. 
Eucalyptus in Cyprus. (Kew Report, 1878. 34.) 
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 
1. Notes on individual species. The notes arc from the Gardeners' Chronicle, 
(dates given), unless otherwise stated. No doubt some of the names require revision, 
particularly in view of the fact that some of the species are liable to change under 
cultivation. 
E. coccifera Hook f. E. cocci} era at Powderham Castle, Devon, figured as a large 
tree (Gard. Chron., 7th Feb., 1891, p. 176). This article gives a summary of the 
knowledge of Eucalypts in regard to their growth in Britain. See also p. 801, 30th 
June, 1888, for a figure, lacking however details of the operculuin. At p. 798 this 
species, and also E. cordata and E. umigera are usefully contrasted for British readers. 
Twigs of juvenile foliage of E. nmigera and E. cwctfera are given from specimens sent 
by M. Xaudin. 
E. cordata Labill.- Flourishes at Castlewellan, county Down, Ireland. In the 
* the Earl of Annesley planted out about two dozen kinds of Eucalyptus, 
vhich did very well till the first severe frost set in, and killed all but E. coccifera and 
Some of them are now more than 50 feet in height, and flower and seed 
The following have stood the severe winters of the past ten years: 
E. cordata, E. gomphocephala, E. piperita, E. resinifera, E. rostrata, E. saligna. (28th 
January. 1899, p. 61.) 
