THE DRAIN OF HARDWOODS 
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FUTURE SOURCE OF SUPPLY 
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' I 'HE hardwood forests of the United 
1 States are practically exhausted of 
mature timber ; the lumber interests are 
even now stripping them of their second 
growth, which will also be exhausted at 
the present rate of consumption within 
a comparatively few years. To this 
emergency there is but one way of escape, 
and that is to plant freely of the Austra¬ 
lian Eucalypts, the most durable and 
rapid growing genus of forest trees in 
the world. Indigenous to the Austra¬ 
lian Continent, where the climate is mild \ 
if not tropical, their geographical dis- >, 
tribution in the United States is limited ! 
to the Southwest, the warmer regions of 
Texas, and, with some species, to the j 
extreme Southern States. This being 
recognized, it stands to reason that Cali¬ 
fornia is destined to be the home )i ttm 
genus, and the greatest producer ban- 
woods of any State in the Unio’ 
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The arts and sciences derm d i a 
woods, hence it is not only the pari ^ j 
wisdom to plant forests, but a broao < 
guaged business proposition to plaid j 
Eucalyptus trees as a money-making t 
enterprise. 
No other tree gives such assurances of 1 
quick and sure returns ; no other tree is 
so easily grown ; no other tree so readily 
adapts itself to our landscape; and no 1 
other tree possesses so wide uses in man- t , 
ufactures of all kinds, as these grand j 
exotics from Australasia. He who plants 
Eucalypts not only plants hope, but a 
nucleus for a competence easily attained 
in less than a score of years. 
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THEODORE PAYNE, 
EUCALYPTUS 
SPECIALIST 
345 S. Main St. Los Angeles, U. S. A. 
A young forest in California of Eucalyptus resinifera. (Red Mahogany.) 
