Imperial Valley settlers' crop manual . ill prove of great valuefor fence posts, for fuel, and formany other purposes for whichdurable hardwood timber is are offered for sale twotypes or varieties of E. tereticomis,the broad leaved and the narrowleaved. The narrow leaved type,E. tereticomis var. linearis, is muchthe best kind for planting in Im-perial and in making purchases thisvariety should be insisted upon. Eucalyptus trees are propagatedexclusively from seed and theyoung plants are set in their per-manent places in February orMarch when from six to twentyinches high. While some
Imperial Valley settlers' crop manual . ill prove of great valuefor fence posts, for fuel, and formany other purposes for whichdurable hardwood timber is are offered for sale twotypes or varieties of E. tereticomis,the broad leaved and the narrowleaved. The narrow leaved type,E. tereticomis var. linearis, is muchthe best kind for planting in Im-perial and in making purchases thisvariety should be insisted upon. Eucalyptus trees are propagatedexclusively from seed and theyoung plants are set in their per-manent places in February orMarch when from six to twentyinches high. While some kinds aremore resistant to drouth thanothers, it is hardly necessary toadd that the growth of any kind ofEucalypt in the Imperial Valley isdependent upon irrigation first set out they should bewatered once a week, three fur-rows to the row but after the firstyear one furrow to the row and one w «,*«, irrigation everv four to six weeks Fig. 24.—Trunk of Eucalyptus , °_ _ _ rostrata seven years old. should be 192 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXPERIMENT STATION. TIGS. Fig trees of many varieties make a luxuriant growth and bearheavily in the Imperial Valley. Accurate data on the comparativemerits of the different varieties is very meagre. The Mission, WhiteAdriatic, Brown Turkey, and Black San Pedro are known to produce
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