Eucalyptus Globulus

"The authentic facts, relating to the remarkable power of the Eucalyptus Globulus in drjing marsh lands and rendering them healthy, are such as to deserve serious and general attention. It appears to be certain that where the Eucalyptus prospers intermittent fever disappears. This tree grows with incredible rapidity, absorbs ten times its own weight of water in twentyfour hours, and spreads through the atmosphere antiseptio camphorated emanations. Dr. Gimbert of Cannes adds to the results achieved at the Cape a number of remarkable facts communicated from Algiers and the south of France. At Zondouk, writes Mr. Trottier, I possessed property with a house near the Kiver Hamyze. The emanations from the damp soil struck down the farmers and their servants annually with malarious fever. In the spring of 1867, I planted 13,000 trees of Eucalyptus Globulus; in July they had grown to about three