Posted by Gus on 4/23/2010, 7:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Importance of Villa Thuret in Eucalyptus history..."
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I just was trying to put things in its historical context. Some of the trees Benoit pointed us all to are truly unique (for, as you well know, hybrids do not necessarily come true from seed one generation afterwards)... and still standing, over a century later!!! Isn't it interesting to pay respect and attention to the old trees, or to the newer ones when they become old? 
Rev. Simmonds, maybe one of the earliest eucalypt pioneers for Northland and Southland, was a good friend and contemporary of Maiden and the earlier days of Blakely, hence heavily influenced by those "new" thoughts.
Hence, his Eucalyptus biangularis (reputed E. urnigera x globulus). Today, you may well be one of the main uncommon eucalypt hybrid makers in the world, reason of joy as not very frequent "odd looking seedlings in a standard seedling batch", sending small % of evidences of eucalypt crossability & evolution being real to the four corners of the world.
Maybe someday, many years in future, someone will find eucalypt puzzles somewhere around the world and wonder what Dipton tree farmers had to do with those great Aussie trees. May it be!
Cheers
Gus
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