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The following analyses of oils yielded by the normal species, and of the 
variety albens, are taken from Messrs. Baker and Smith’s “ Research on the 
Eucalypts,” and form an instructive illustration of variation in the composition of 
Eucalyptus oils belonging to the same species :— 
Specific Gravity 
at 15° C. 
Specific Rotation. 
W 
D 
Sponification 
Number. 
Solubility in Alcohol. 
Constituents found. 
0-9117 
—7-46° 
(First fraction.) 
5-78 
2 vols. 70%. 
Pinene, 
Eucalyptol, 
Aromadendral. 
0-9044 
_7-2° 
(First fraction.) 
8-55 
1 vol. 80%. 
Pinene, 
Eucalyptol, 
Aromadendral. 
Flowers. —This species is one of the most profuse flowerers of the Eucalypts. 
The Agricultural Gazette for February, 1893, contains a useful paper on “Plants 
visited by Bees.” It is very condensed, and the native plants are not separated from 
the introduced ones. Botanical names are not given, and it would be desirable to 
compile a list of our native plants stated by responsible bee-keepers to be useful bee- 
plants. The above-quoted paper says :—“ It is worthy of remark that the flora of 
Australia possesses honey-producing trees shrubs, and plants of a high standard of 
excellence, the honey produced by bees in the near neighbourhood of the forest being 
of the finest quality, and having few (if any) faults.” The value of the Box-tree 
{Eucalyptus hemiphloia ) for honey has passed into a proverb. 
It having been reported that a boy at Burragorang had been poisoned through 
eating honey, many years ago, the late Rev. Dr. Woolls wrote a paper, entitled 
“ Poisonous Honey,” in “A Contribution to the Flora of Australia,” p. 28. It refers, 
however, to exotic plants for the most part. 
In the Agricultural Gazette for January, 1902, I compiled some notes, from 
Foresters’ Reports, on the value of various Eucalyptus trees to bee-keepers. 
Following are the reports on this species :— 
Months of Flowering. 
Reports from— 
^January 
Forester Siddins, Armidale. 
September to December 
„ Rotton, Picton. 
May, June, and July 
,, Postletliwaite, Grenfell. 
March to May 
,, Smith, Dubbo. 
February 
„ Payten, Corowa. 
February and March 
,, Stopford, Penrith. 
October and November 
Mecham, Bellingen. 
February and March 
,, Rudder, Booral. 
*March and April 
Inspect. Forester Manton, Moama. 
November to March... 
Forester Brown, Port Macquarie. 
February to August... 
,, Harris, Gunnedah. 
September 
„ Allan, Milton. 
March 
„ Crowley, Casino. 
* Sometimes twice a year. 
