" R. E. P.," Jacksonville, Florida, writes: "I notice in the Monthly for August you say, 'The Blue gum seems at home in Florida,' and add that one at Leesburg is ' twenty feet high, with trunks eighteen inches round, four years from the seed.' That may be so, but I know that the E. globulus winter-kills here. It has been tried here by quite a number of persons, and I do not know of any one living at present."

[It is just as well that it does not, for from the Editor's examinations in California it is a timber tree of very little value after it has grown. It is a rapid grower - capital where rapid screening is desired - but there are American trees of rapid growth, and of more value when grown. - Ed. G. M.]