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The short paper is one of the best I have'iead, and should be referred to. The 
quotations I have made below concerning different species under " Shallard," are from 
this paper. 
The matter of phenology is destined to go a long way towards stabilising the 
bee-keeping industry. If in a number of years we can scientifically ascertain the 
beginning and end of the honey-flow as regards different species of trees in different 
districts, we shall have done a great deal to remove it from the empiricism from which 
it has never arisen in any part of Australia. 
I would like to see the question as to what trees and other flowering plants 
(especially the native ones) are important to the bee-keeping industry, both in regard 
to honey -flow and pollen, investigated by agricultural and forestry research students. 
We are lamentably ignorant on this important subject. 
An Adelaide correspondent puts it this way : 
What I want to see done is this. Foresters as well as officers of the Apicultural Department should 
be placed on the same footing in relation to inspection of honey as officers of Pure Foods Act?, or more 
particularly, inspectors of milk, i.e., they should be authorised to call on an apiarist or bee-keeper who 
markets honey, and, producing 2-4 oz. bottles, take a sample, pay 2d. for it if payment be demanded, 
enquire how it is defined, Red Gum honey, and so on, call on bee-keepers during extracting period, forward 
sealed samples to the Department, with particulars as to date, &c., and then you would be able to state 
where " XLNT " samples come from, and to have the area properly botanised. Inspectors, i.e., foresters, 
&c., should obtain, especially on State lands, samples of the trees or shrubs playing, or reckoned to play, 
the most important part in flow ot honey, necessitating the extraction at the time the sample was obtained. 
This should not take up much of a forester's time, and by proving which trees do produce honey, we should 
make reafforestation more popular. 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
All the following Eucalypts are figured in the present work, are abundant, more 
or less gregarious, and are profuse bloomers. The various Parts should be referred to, 
and I append a few additional notes from the bee-keepers' point of view. Our data are 
still very scant. 
In my " Notes on Eucalyptus trees from the point of view of the Bee-keeper " 
(Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., January, 1902, p. 4) which is compiled from foresters' reports, 
it will be observed that the definite information as to the periodicity of blooming is 
almost entirely absent. It is evident that foresters, at that date, did not note, in their 
pocket-books, the dates of flowering of their tree-charges, nor did they botanically 
check the names, e.g., Stringybark could be one of half a dozen species. At the same 
time, my compilation has for nearly twenty years formed the principal mass of data 
connecting species with honey-yield and flavour. 
1. Eucalyptus acmenioides (White Mahogany). 
One of the first to bloom in the spring, and fairly regular every year, but very 
little good to the bees. (S. T. Main, Krambach.) 
This is a profuse bloomer, and occasionally a heavy yielder of good flavoured 
light honey. (Shallard.) 
