Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — Eucalyptus Fastest Growing of Any of Hard Wood Trees [ARTICLE]

Eucalyptus Fastest Growing of Any of Hard Wood Trees

Hard, fine grained, durable wood usually grows slowly. A most remarkable exception is the eucalyptus, and this gives the tree its great value in reforestation. It is said that the eucalyptus grows five times as rapidly as any other tree. Seedlings have been observed to make an average growth of six Inches a day, and one tree ab talned a height of 125 feet and a diameter of 36 inches in nine yetrs. The eucalyptus will not thrive where there are frosts, but In the South it promises to go a long way toward filling the place once occupied by other hardwoods which have been greatly reduced by demands for furniture and cooperage stock.