The Schinus Molle, a Peruvian tree, thrives admirably in California. The editor saw trees as large as an average oak would grow in many parts of California. A very fine line of them along the public road is seen near Mr. Shinn's home, at Niles. As to the relative value of this and Eucalyptus, we find the following in a California paper, which seems to us as a good estimate:

"I also know that it is worth one-half of the stovewood they make, to cut up and split it and it must be done soon after it is cut down or it is impossible to split it. The wood don't compare in quality with oak but is better than willow; about like sycamore. For timber it is entirely useless and for posts and stakes it rots in one or two years. I planted the next spring, after the gums, six pepper trees and they average larger than the gums in diameter and would make more wood per tree, easy to chop and split and fully equal in quality. If my grove was pepper, I would now cut the limbs off and make twenty cords of wood and in three years they would have grown out again larger than they are now."