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7. E. melliodora (Yellow Box-tree). 
Undoubtedly the most valuable nectar-yielding tree of Victoria. Yellow Box 
honey is perhaps the best liked and best known of our Victorian honeys. When quite 
free from other honeys (which it seldom is), it is of a pale, straw colour, very deme, 
aromatic, with a pronounced flavour. It keeps liquid almost indefinitely when free 
from Red Gum honey. 
8. E. pipertia (Peppermint Gum). 
Of ite value as a nectar-producing tree nothing can be said. 
y. E. polyanAeatM (Red Box). 
The li< MIC v is one of the palest, but rather dull in appearance, very dense, and 
on this account very difficult to extract from the combs. It lias generally, but not 
always, a somewhat oily or tallowy flavour, not noticed, however, by palates used to it. 
When quite free from other honey it does not candy. Blended with other honeys it 
gives body and reduces the colour. When kept for at least twelve months the oily 
taste almost disappears. 
10. E. rostrata (River Red Gum). 
The blooming period is comparatively short, but the secretion of nectar often 
very profuse ; it is in fact one of the heaviest yielders. The honey is of a clear golden 
colour, not quite so dense as that from Yellow Box, less aromatic, but of a milder and 
very good flavour; it candies quickly and sets very hard when from trees in the 
Grampians country, but is less inclined to granulate when from trees on the Murray. 
11. E. ntbida (Candle Bark Gum). 
It yields pollen as well as nectar, and the honey, so far as is known, is identical 
with that of Manna Gum. 
12. E. sideroxylon (Red Ironbark). 
The honey is of fine quality, much like that of Yellow Gum, but no great yields 
t appear to be harvested, partly perhaps because it blooms in winter, and partly 
because it does not occur in great numbers together. 
13. E. Sieberiana (Silver Top). 
Nothing is known about it from the apiarists' point of view. 
14. E. tereticornis (Forest Red Gum). 
AB to the value of this tree to the bee-keeper, the character of the honey, the 
frequency of flowering, no reliable information is at my disposal. 
