The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-21
IRREPRESSIRLE EUCALYPTUS AT
lOMALAND.

There has been a curious and conspicu-
| Gus instance at the Lonaland homestead
of the almost total Indifference of the
eucalyptus to water-at any rate. to rain.
Early in the Year a few boughs intend
ed for bonfire were carried to the crest
of the HILL the highest point near the
flagstaff. The soil there ALPHABETICALLY lit
tie other than the dry, red "hardpan, >
almost utterly destitute of any vegetable
ingredients. The boughs were brought
up before the winter rainfall. such as il
was, hut that hiSh ground was soon quite
dry Moreover, the crest is without any
sort of shelter bare to all winds from all
points of the compass, especially from
the eastern deserts ami the southern and
western ocean.
One of these boughs must have flow
cred, and, after it had lain awhile on the
ground dropped seed capsules. In due
course a delicate eucalyptus shoot broke
through the surface of the soil. and al
through the absolutely dry succeeding
months to this date it has been serene,y
growing. 1t is now tDecember) healthy
little sapling of about seven feet in
height, growth. say. of six inches
month. Once il had started. its steady
growth all through the subsequent
months in that baked and unpromisinS
soil must have been achieved on dew
only. For there were, Think, but a cou-
pie OF trifiing showers. Now the rainy
season is at hand, and there must be
great rejoicing and preparations among
the delicate green leaves
To another little sapling, then about
three feet higl and visiby parched and
crinkled as TO its leaves for want of wa
ter, | began fifteen months ago to give
a daily paiful of water. and continued
TO Go so for fourteen months IN addi-
ton. it got the dew droppings from the
roof of a house near at hand IL two OF
three days it had perked up. and looked
glossier and fatter. Ii a week il had
thrown out hundreds of new leaves. Since
that time to now ii has grown about thir-
teen or fourteen or Fourteen inches n
month. II had not a personal and pa
ternal attachment 10 it. | should dig IL
up and examine its roots. For the daily
dose of water was placed in an earth-pit
of couple Of feet III diameter which
had dug around the trunk. To follow
the water the rots therefore have grown
straight down and down and downtown
far? l really think l must take a spade.
after all, in the interests Of science. in
spite of lacerated affections, For euealyp-
tus roots are usually quite shallow AMI
extend widely beneath the surface of the
soil
They are. however. great travellers
when in search of water. and instances
are cited where eucalyptus roots have
gore from one hundred 20 two hundred
feet for their water supply.-Point Iona.
Cali. New Century Truth.
Professor Sugarman, OF Little Falls. ".
Y. takes daily winter baths in the Mo
hawk river. He has net missed a day
this winter although ;he temperature 4
the past week hcvered at eighteen To
thirty degrees below zero. lie says be has
beet greatly benefited by his icy baths
Since he began taking these arctic
plEages he is no longer troubled, ha sayS,
with colds in lie head CT with cataEri
At present he is obliged TO cut the &c II
get into -hs water. He wears summer
clothing cisdainins Tnufiers ard over
coats. and seems IL thrive on exposure
to cod that would xii the average man
Rrdyard Klpnne was ,ai-ss--s lsA, years
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