. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 265 AUSTRALIA, THE BEEKEEPER'S PARADISE By Tarlton Rayment, Author of ''Money in Bees," Etc. (Copyright by the author) West Australia The great commonwealth of Aus- tralia has often been described as a land of "magnificent ; So it is; it is so far removed from the home land of most of its original set- tlers that it is "down under" or, to use another term, it is the antipodes, and far too vast to attempt anything descriptive in less than six chapters. "Why six?" Well, there must be
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 265 AUSTRALIA, THE BEEKEEPER'S PARADISE By Tarlton Rayment, Author of ''Money in Bees," Etc. (Copyright by the author) West Australia The great commonwealth of Aus- tralia has often been described as a land of "magnificent ; So it is; it is so far removed from the home land of most of its original set- tlers that it is "down under" or, to use another term, it is the antipodes, and far too vast to attempt anything descriptive in less than six chapters. "Why six?" Well, there must be a limit somewhere, and since the larg- est star on our national flag has six points—one for each State—we have decided to give a point likewise to each of them. To avoid all interstate j jalousies we propose to deal with them in geographical order, ami should we degenerate into the ver- nacular, as most "Aussies" are prone to do, the appropriateness of the des- ignation will be our chief excuse. What a scintillating cluster is the Southern Cross. West Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and, we almost forgot the "Apple Garden"—Tasma- nia. Unlike the Poet who went from east to west, we go the reverse, west to east. So here goes "The ; It's a very wonderful country, im- mense, rich, pleasant, healthy, new. Its chief features are coastal forests of mighty Eucalyptus trees that rival the giants of America. The other great division comprises the gold country, yes, it has miles and miles and yet more miles of open plain country, baked under an ardent sun. Now don't jump to conclusions, the plains may prove a veritable flower garden. "Good for bees?" No one has tried it, but a kinsman who has traveled the interior tells me that he rode for days, and long days, too, through apparently unending beds of red "everlastings," then just as sud- denly the color of the flowers ap- peared to change, and
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