lifc-kfi'lHiig Iixlusifri/ in V icioria. 



other introduced plants. No other tree or plant growing in such enor- 

 mous numbers, secretes nectar so freely and is at the same time so 

 independent of a regular rainfall as the eucalypt. There are vast areas 

 of these trees, nearly 4,000,000 acres of which have been fljbrmanenfcly 

 reserved for forest purposes, while there are over 6, 000, (TOO acres of 

 other Crown lands still unoccupied, and more or less covered with 



Blossom of Sugar Gum (Eumlyptm dadoca/yx). 



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taken bv cultivated I^^ Tt^^^^ ' n '^ P^^°® ^^ ^«« f°i-age will be 

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