Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-21

lutions or parts of resolutions, inconsistent to
or conflicting with the provisions of this act
be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved March II, A. D. 1874.
THE EUCALYPTUS TREE.
The San Francisco Bulletin gives the follow
ing account of the Eucalyptus Globulus, or
Australian gum-tree, obtained principally
from Messrs. Sontag & Co., of San Francisco,
who have given much attention to its cultiva-
ton:
The eucalyptus is favorably known to all
residents of California, where probably not
less than one million trees are planted. In
this city, in front of handsome residences, you
will find it, with its magnificent dropping
branches, making an effective and graceful
shade-tree. In Oakland, the broad avenues
are lined with them. Eucalyptus forests are
planted in the country surrounding Oakland,
and, in fact, in every county in the State,
where the cold winter will permit it to live,
the eucalyptus will be found growing. The
wonderful properties of this tree have only,
within the past few years, been discovered and
appreciated. 1t is justly claimed that when
the tree Aourishes in low, marshy and feverish
districts, all miasma will cease. 1t destroys
the malarial elementin any atmosphere where
it grows, and is great absorbent of moisture,
draining the subsoil almost as thoroughly as
regular system of piping. The eucal lyptus is
an evergreen, and is found in its native coun'
try (Tasmania) in boundless forests, both on
the hillside and in the lowlands, under ex.
tremes of climates, both as to the heat and
cold, ranging from 130 degrees to 20 degrees
Fahrenheit. Whether it will endure greater
degree of cold, we think, has as yet been un"
determined. 1t is, however, worthy trial.
It's remarkably rapid growth is a matter Of
much surprise, attaining, as it does, maxi
mum height ofabout three hundred feet, with
a circumference of from thirty to fifty feet.
For timber and fuel it is exceedingly useful,
being hard and easily worked, and very ser.
viceable for such purposes as the keels OF
vessels, bridges, &C., where strength and du-
rability are essential. It is estimated that
from $4,0O0,000 to $5,0OO,OO in value of this
timber is exported annually from Australia.
The leaves Of this tree are of a dark blush
color, about ten inches long, an inch wide,
thin, and oddly twisted. They exhale q
strong camphor-like odor, quite agreeable and
pleasant, which, with the large absorption of
water by the roots, causes the beneficial influ-
ence of the tree. 1t bears small white flow.
er, having no odor. In consequence of its
aut.febrile qualities the English government
has planted it extensively in the East Indies
and Africa, in fever districts, with the most
satisfactory results. In France, Cuba, Spain,
Mexico, and many other places where malaria,
fever ague and other pestilential diseases pre-.
vailed, the eucalypti have also been planted.
The wonderful properties of this tree have
been discussed by many scientific institutions
in Europe. In the Academy of Sciences, in
this city, its medicinal and anti-miasmatic
qualities have received considerable attention.
DR.. Pigne Dupuytren testified before that
academy of the virtues of the eucalyptus, and
stated that he and DR.. D'Olivera had tested
it in the French Hospital. In the garden
surrounding this hospital large number of
the trees are planted for sanitary purposes.
1t had been found eficacious in the treatment
of affections of the larynx and ofmucous mem
brane in general. Experiments, carefully
made, have proved that in medicinal prep
aration it cures cases Of intermittent fever,
against which quinine alone proves powerless.
It is also valuable as a disinfectant. In Al
geria its cultivation was undertaken on large
scale. Some $4,000 eucalypti were planted
in an extremely pestilential and unhealthy
section, where fever prevailed to grea: ex-
tent every year. During the first year of
their growth, at the time when the fever sea-
son used to set in, not single case of fever
occurred yet the trees were only nine feet
high. Since then this place is reported free
from its unwelcome visitations. In the VI
cinity of Constantinople, another fever spot,
marshy and sickly, the whole ground was
dried up by $4,000 of these trees. In Cuba,
marsh diseases are rapidly disappearing upon
the introduction of this tree. A railway STA
tion in the Department of the Var was so
pestilential that the officials could not remain
there longer than year. Forty of these
trees were planted, and the unhealthy condl-
ton of the place was changed. Two miles
from Haywards, in this State, the surveyor
general planted two groves of the eucalyptus,
one of about ninety acres and the other sew
enty acres, the whole comprising about $780,
900 trees. They are now only about five
years old, yet many of the trees are forty to
fifty feet high, the whole making most ex-
tensve and beautiful forest; for fuel and tim
ber purposes, being worth thousands Of dol
lars.
A PROMISING YoUTH.-A Sacramento
gentleman lately saw little boy leaning
against post in the eastern portion of the
city, putting energetically at full grown cl-
gar, and succeeding in drawing from it quite
q volume of smoke He felt such evident in.