House and Garden 
GROWING CAMPHOR TREES 
O NE of our daily papers has this 
to say concerning camphor: 
“Camphor trees won’t grow profitably 
anywhere but in Japan. They yield 
nothing, even there, till they are forty 
years old. Then the tree is cut down, 
and from the whole thing—leaves, bark, 
trunk, branches, even roots—the cam¬ 
phor is distilled. The process is dil- 
ficult. 
“The Japs, a far-sighted people 
usually, made a mistake in the past, and 
did not preserve their camphor groves as 
they should. Now, in consequence, 
there are not enough camphor trees. 
But the next generation will see this 
deficit more than corrected; for to-day, 
in Japan, for every old camphor tree 
cut down ten young ones must be 
planted.” i 
The writer of the above extract is mis¬ 
taken in saying the camphor tree will not 
grow profitably anywhere but in Japan. 
It will flourish in any ordinary climate 
where but no more than a few degrees 
of frost occurs. The tree flourishes in 
Florida, and seedsmen there advertise 
seeds from their trees, and it could be 
grown in other States as well. It would 
thrive no doubt in California and in 
British Columbia, and it thrives even in 
the extreme southern part of England. 
There must be a good trade already in 
the South for young trees, as many 
Southern nurserymen advertise plants 
in quantities, but they may be only for 
ornamental purposes. 
At any rate, it is certain the trees could 
be grown profitably outside of Japan.— 
Florists’ Exchange. 
the camphor tree in CALIFORNIA 
T HAVE read with considerable 
interest the accounts which have 
recently appeared in the various horti¬ 
cultural journals that come to me, of the 
efforts the United States Department of 
Agriculture is making to determine 
whether camphor trees can be success¬ 
fully grown in commercial quantities 
for the gum they may produce. It 
seems strange that the authorities at 
Washington have not learned ere this 
time that in Southern California there 
are trees now growing with trunks two 
feet in diameter at the base. 
The camphor tree is not particular as 
to soil, growing equally well in light 
sandy loam or heavy clay, and does not 
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