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Tl|© fBucalyptu^. 
A genus of trees (of the Myrtle family) having many species, most 
of which are natives of Australia, where they attain great size and furnish 
good timber. They have full leathery leaves containing much volatile oil 
and remarkable for being placed upright so that both sides are equally ex¬ 
posed to the light. The Eucalypti are efficient deodorizers and powerful 
absorbents, and many regions, unhealthful from miasmal or malarial ex¬ 
halations, or otherwise objectionable from unpleasant and unwholesome 
odors, have been rendered salubrious and safely habitable by a copious 
plantation of these precious trees. Unfortunately, they have, not pros¬ 
pered in most parts of this country, where the common sunflowers offer a 
fairly satisfactory substitute for counteracting offensive and noisome 
effluvia. 
“Grand Tree thou art, in ever stately bearing, 
Thy leaves a healing with the nations sharing !” 
— M. E. Patterson. 
Lessening Misery. 
HD HE wondrous chemistry of nature, by which the foul and noxious are 
transmitted into the fair and wholesome, through kind, mysterious 
agencies and processes, aptly reflects and illustrates the Infinite Wisdom 
and Beneficence of nature’s Creator, who in many other ways draws good 
out of evil and turns gloom into light.Be the noble Eucalyptus, 
even from its far off home, our mentor and our monitor. By scattering 
around those leaves of healing, i. e., good books and journals; by breathing 
sage counsels into ears that else are likely to hear only wicked advice ; by 
the bold and strenuous defense of all that really makes for the True, the 
Good, the Fair; and by the benign and potent means of exemplary lives, we 
may do much to counterbalance those malign influences which, like baleful 
