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Eucalypts will form the theme of many a poem, many an essay, many a descriptive 

 account of an area more or less extensive. Eucalyptus is an intensely Australian 

 theme, but no one not imbued with the Australian spirit will ever be able to properly 

 handle it. I have casually referred (Part LII, p. 85) to the perennial interest of the 

 Australian bush so far as the Eucalypts are concerned, and it is a matter of great 

 satisfaction to observe that artists are endeavouring to understand Eucalyptus, a 

 sine qua non if they desire to pictorially interpret it to others. Painters will arise 

 who will be able to depict the characters of scores (and additional ones eventually) 

 of trees, which possess their own individualities, not at present understood by the 

 man, botanist or other, who is unable to devote the time necessary for a knowledge 

 of those individualities, which must, obviously, precede their interpreattion. Lister- 

 Lister, Hans Heysen, and Gruner (to select but three) are artists who depict 

 Eucalypts as they see them, and who do not attempt to produce results which the 

 botanical student knows to be impossible. 



