THE BLUE GUM TREE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON HEALTH.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 289, 12 September 1874, Page 4

THE BLUE GUM TREE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON HEALTH.

Mr. 'J, ' Henry Ilogors, writes, to/ the ' Times ''jfrorn Green' Hedges, 1 East Grinstftadi' Sussex :—" As .many somewhat vague statement's respecting tKe' hardiness of' the'blue gum'tree and its 'infltience, ovfer' malarious' (diseases' have"'lately ap- ! peered, 'the''f6ll6wing facts may be considered worthy of being 'made' known :—T have at present growing in front of the cottage in which I reside, close to, but not nailed to, the west wall, several blue' gum 'trees! 1 ' No:' 1, planted -in the spring of 1571,. has survived two winters without protection ; at'6ft. from the ground it has a circumlerence of 7in. Its height at pre -' sent'is only - 15ft'.,'the'upper portion hav'>ing .been »tom-off by.-theTlwind; ; No. 2, planted -in the spring of 187*2, has-'suiwived one winter, without, protection. Itsicircumference,!at'6ft: from the ground,*; is, and its height 18ft. No. 3,'. planted "in /the iSpting dfjast,,',year, has attained a , height i.of- l'iift.-, j All these-.trees, and' '-.several smaller specimens ofa the same, and nearly allied species, are at.-fhis' present time-in;perfect-health and vigor,' and uninjured by frost.j That this 'tree is capable of ."resisting th<v : cold,of ordinary winters.',in sheltered} situations ofthe South .-doubted, even when planted,.as my specimens are, on a retentive clay.; "iAs-regards its influ*-' ! ,ence oyer diseases arising rfrom, malaria, 1 ,! | may ; mention that .since.- the..-.winter' of : •1850-51, when I had a, -very severe at--tack of. malaria fevei; hv, Pome, ll.> have' vbeeti liable, especially .in'the,autumn, -'to irregular; aguish-symptoms, .but,since my gum trees have grown sufficiently, tall 'to beat„againat„.the.-casement of my bed-' room windows, I have not had any return' -of my,yery,disagreeable sensations." ' '