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l, circumstances over which unhappily I had no control obliged me to leave for Sweion, my 
native country. I need not tell you with what regret I left behind my tender plantation*. At my return 
after six year* absence 1 found everything destroyed. 1 could at first not even conceive how they had 
been able to cause such a complete ruin, but soon it became apparent that they had allowed hrg- hrr.ls 
of cattle to trample down and browse on the tender plants. Scarcely a few stumps were left, and in profound 
disgust 1 had to abandon th<- whole concern, as I was already then too old to begin over again. Such was 
the state of this country at the time, and my case is just the common lot, it seems, of all promoters of a 
new scheme, which in general has the only, but great, fault of being too early. At present things arc much 
altered for the better by the progress of civilisation, in which this people have of late made great strides, 
and twenty years have done wonders. There are now magnificent municipal gardens, and a very energetic 
and clever director thereof. Mr. Thays, whom I will see. as he may perhaps be able to comply with your 
wishes. 
I am myself very old indeed, nearly eighty, and besides broken down by several domestic 
bereavements which have befallen me in my old age in a sequence without interruption. 
In spite of the regret for the loss and destruction of my scientific plantations. I have still had the 
satisfaction, before I die, to be apprised of the most important fact, that in the big plain which stretches 
from the Atlantic until the Cordilleras, there scarcely is now a single estancia without a forest plantation 
of Eucalyptus amounting in many cases to several thousands. 
To know that I myself have played a part in this progress of vast improvements is certainly something 
and very pleasing, although the plantations, being for the most part of u single specie^ viz., the i/loiulus, 
have not been done with the selection and variety I wished and intended to promote. 
. ' Sobre el Eucalyptus globulus." Revista medico (/uintigico. Buenos 
Ayres-, 187C. 
CONSUL BAKER (U.S. Consular Reports, Nov. and Dec., 1882, p. 403) gives a 
glowing account of the success which has attended the planting of Eucalypts in the 
neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres, and singles out E. globulus for particular recom- 
mendation. See, however, Mr. Aberg's remarks. 
BRAZIL. 
NAVARRO DE ANDRADE.-" Manual do Plantadoi de Eucalyptos." S. Paulo 
(Brazil), 1911. A well got-up 8vo volume of 343 pp., well illustrated. 
The cultivation has made remarkable strides in the State of San Paulo, and 
perusal of the book and conversation with the author during his visit to Sydney in 
1913 show me how advanced is the study of species and silviculture in Southern Brazil. 
WEST INDIES IN GENERAL. 
' The culture and uses of the species of Eucalyptus." See West, Indian Bulletin 
(the journal of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies), iv, 145 
(1904). 
It mainly consists of an abstract of Mr. McClatchie's work. At p. 166-175 
is information in regard to " Eucalypts in the West Indies." 
E. globulus will only grow at considerable elevations, but a number of species 
are enumerated as flourishing in the lowlands of Jamaica, British Guiana, Trinidad, 
Dominica, and Antigua, not only as shade or shelter trees, but also as a source of fuel 
K. microtheca, E. robusla, E. citfiodora, E. -roHrata and others were 
