Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-09-03
THE EUCALYPTUS.

A correspondent in the Ceyion Times
gives the following particulars about the
Eucalyptus Globulus, or Australian blue
gum tree, in New Zealand and Ceylon:
az lived for a number OF years in New
Zealand, he writes; "the province was
very wet indeed, and colonial fever. or,
as it is called in Ceylon jungle-for they
are exactly tho same-was very prevalent
among the inhabitants, myself among
them After sme yearsuI left New
zealandsy Y { up my residence IN
Victoria. in ls~.i densely wooded with
gum trees. and during the years l lived
there only had one attack OF colonial
fever. which happened in year remark
able for drought, when stock died oil ny
thousands; the trees were stripped OF
their bark, and ten per cont OF them
were snuffed ont altogether. Dnnng
that season fever WAS q common com
plant throughout tho district, and
those who took the trouble to think
at all on the subject came to tho concn-
sion that the appearance of the fever was
due to the absence Of the volatile exhala-
ton from the gum leaves OF course it
is well known that the eucalypti shed
their bark and not their leaves, so thni
the fact Of fever visiting the district ut {
time when the trees bad bgeh stripped
of their leaves by drought drew people
attention 10 it, the more esp cially as n
that very time the local papers wer'
teeming with arguments as to whether
the eucalyptus was fever.desIroyer oil
not. Again. when the W,kati gold fields
were opened up in 1868, fever WAS par.
feet scourg- on tho district bat about a
year or eighteen months Afterwards
it was rare thug to hear Of case. at
trbute the Disappearance of the disease
to the number OF gum-trees planted ii
the disr,ct as protection against tn
wind this gind Of tree being chosen o
account o. !. tapii growth. No wher
have seen u stronger proof of the rapi
growth of those trees than in tho love
plains OF the Otago, where ] have see
trees three years old from thirty to fort
feet high, and these plains, which wheI
/ saw them first. we're destitute OF tim
Der, are now dotted over with clumps c
magnificent blue-gums; to these, l t
lieve, must b. attributed tha dryness {
the soil, compared to its former cond
ton, the quantity of moisture they al
serb from the soil being enormous.
The writer goes on to say those tre'
often attain hight Of two hnndred M
twenty fest. This matter has the mo
intimate connection with this plac
Everyone in Ploche ia familiar with tn
unhealthy character of that marshy stri
laying between Panaca and Bullionvill
Were one hundred OF those young tire
to be set out, inside of two years Il
health Of that country would be great
improved and we would have nc
beautiful grove at our very doors, viii
would form o pleasant resort for o
citizens. Those trees are, we belleN
now being set out on n large scale in n
around Los Angeles, and in view of ,h
beautiful effect rapid growth. gre
beauty and general usefulness, il wor
be most beneficial idea to send
some and set them out. Bullionyi
would be forever free from agus ins
of two years, aud the agreeable contr
of a sturdy grove OF giant trees to c
frowning rocks and bald mounta
would be powerful incentive to all
this vicinity to take an occasional pie
ure trip to that favored land.