FRUITS OF QUEENSLAND. 



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Coochin York Mangosteen, Port Douglas District. 



population of our own people; and last, but not least, a country that, from a 

 fruit-grower's point of view, cannot be excelled elsewhere. We have a healthy 

 climate, not by any means an extreme climate as is often represented extreme 

 cold is unknown, frost being unusual on any portion of the seaboard, but 

 common during the winter months on our tablelands. But even where there 

 are frosts the days are pleasantly warm. Summer is undoubtedly warm, but it 

 is usually a bearable heat, and sudden changes are extremely rare, so that 



