Will our deciduous trees slowly change their nature in the
Antipodes ? As yet there is no sign. In Western Australia (the home of the giant Karri and Jarrah, and a hundred other trees of precious fibre) the long winding drive of the glorious Park above the city of Perth is lined with British trees, the majority of them oaks, each a monument to a West Australian Soldier who fell in the War.
"The actions of the just
Smell sweet and flourish in their dust."
he bright green of their deciduous leaves is as pleasant to as were the red crowns of the goldfinches. Again the at rivers, especially the Murray, are held up by weeping flows first exported from Elba, and these show no more kange than the oaks, after many generations of Australian ife. Why should not we 'return the compliment and import re trees from Australia, especially Western Australia, that 'anidise of botanists ? There is one very flourishing group f gum trees in Essex ; and a farmer in Buckinghamshire has Warden decorated with rare New Zealand trees and shrubs, I gTown from seed, sent by letter post, and all flourishing.
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