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- | 4 -75.7, | + | ====== THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER ====== |
- | A Monthly Bulletin | + | A Monthly Bulletin |
- | No.128 | + | |
- | AUGUST 1945 Price 6d, | + | No.128, AUGUST 1945 Price 6d\\ |
- | Editor: Ray Kirkby Production: Yvonne Rolfe | + | |Editor:|Ray Kirkby| |
- | Assist. Editor; Dorothy Drigden Assistant: Kath. McKay | + | |Production:|Yvonne Rolfe| |
- | Sales & Subs: Jean Harvey. | + | |Assist. Editor;|Dorothy Drigden| |
- | CONTENTS | + | |Assistant:|Kath. McKay| |
- | Pac7e | + | |Sales & Subs:|Jean Harvey.| |
- | , | + | |
- | Via Broken Cart Creek .. , by Ruby PayneScott 3 | + | **CONTENTS**\\ |
- | r | + | |Via Broken Cart Creek|by Ruby Payne-Scott| |
- | Data and Dopa sa. . o | + | |Data and Dopa|| |
- | Message from Goodman' | + | |Message from Goodman' |
- | Dear "Busbies"W* LC Kan Taylor | + | |Dear "Bushies"|by LAC Kan Taylor| |
- | O | + | |Agony Column|by " |
- | Agony Column | + | |Cultivating our Native Flora|by " |
- | Cultivating our Native Flora by " | + | |Backyard Bushwalking|| |
- | Australis" | + | |
- | Have you ever heard of " | + | |
- | W ONDER | + | ===== WONDER ===== |
J. LeGay Brereton. | J. LeGay Brereton. | ||
- | What j.,s the name of that bird that sings High in the air, | + | |
- | Deep in our hearts? | + | What is the name of that bird that sings\\ |
- | The swift bright flash of his crimson wings Flits in the blue sky everywhere, | + | High in the air,\\ |
- | Out of the east I have seen him soar; | + | Deep in our hearts?\\ |
- | A light in the heart of the night he darts Down in the silent bush, and soon | + | The swift bright flash of his crimson wings\\ |
- | Under the moon | + | Flits in the blue sky everywhere.\\ |
- | He pours his wonderful song | + | Out of the east I have seen him soar;\\ |
- | And fills our soul with a hope undreamed before, While your heart throbs by mine and we forget The limits God hath set | + | A light in the heart of the night he darts\\ |
- | And wonder all night long. | + | Down in the silent bush, and soon\\ |
- | "S=LY, STEELY, SLULBP. | + | Under the moon\\ |
- | Few will not have heard of the request made to the Club to vacate the rooms at 5, Hamilton Street where for about twelve years it has met on Friday nights, This unexpected necessity comes :).b a time when accomnodation | + | He pours his wonderful song\\ |
- | find a roof for tho Club, even though it be a temporary one i_thout | + | And fills our soul with a hope undreamed before,\\ |
- | less like a man with a broken | + | While your heart throbs by mine and we forget\\ |
- | For some time it has been a-oparent | + | The limits God hath set\\ |
- | Club has been failing and this has been remarked upon by mauy members, particularly those of long standing who are in a Tositin | + | And wonder all night long.\\ |
- | A Club is a collection of people with a common object who band together so that the efforts and pleabure | + | \\ |
- | That the molten thoughts and aspirations which fired the earliest enthusiasts should harden into uninspiring slag is no new phenomenon, | + | |
- | "For each age is a dream that is dying, Or cne that is coming to birth." | + | **"SURELY, SURELY, SLUMBER |
- | Perhaps it is our misfortune that we are witnesses of a Club in its death throes; if so, is it worth the effort of attempting to nurse it throuh | + | |
- | There is a considerable amount of work to be done in the Club but not more than c-an b- accomlished | + | Few will not have heard of the request made to the Club to vacate the rooms at 5, Hamilton Street where for about twelve years it has met on Friday nights, This unexpected necessity comes at a time when accommodation |
- | , | + | |
- | present crisis comes as a convenient time to give the Club its quituF | + | For some time it has been apparent |
- | as such an entrancing youth. Why attempt to f.-.).ce | + | |
- | nSurely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, th shore Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wav,; and o-!.ro..." | + | A Club is a collection of people with a common object who band together so that the efforts and pleasure |
- | VIA BPLOKEN C.E.', | + | |
+ | That the molten thoughts and aspirations which fired the earliest enthusiasts should harden into uninspiring slag is no new phenomenon: | ||
+ | |||
+ | "//For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.//" | ||
+ | |||
+ | Perhaps it is our misfortune that we are witnesses of a Club in its death throes; if so, is it worth the effort of attempting to nurse it through | ||
+ | |||
+ | There is a considerable amount of work to be done in the Club but not more than can be accomplished | ||
+ | |||
+ | "// | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== VIA BROKEN CART CREEK ===== | ||
Ruby Payne-Scott. | Ruby Payne-Scott. | ||
- | A public holiday in the middle of the week, a job just finished at work, | + | |
- | , the promise of snow in the morning air when a rote from our head office arrived ordering me to take some of my accumulated leave! Bill thought the P.M.G. might be able to struggle along without him for three days and they, plus the aforementioned holiday and a weekend, would make six - one and n bit for travelling and four and a bit for walking. Our objective was Canberra to Tumut, Obviously we had no time to go astroy | + | A public holiday in the middle of the week, a job just finished at work, the promise of snow in the morning air when a note from our head office arrived ordering me to take some of my accumulated leave! Bill thought the P.M.G. might be able to struggle along without him for three days and they, plus the aforementioned holiday and a weekend, would make six - one and a bit for travelling and four and a bit for walking. Our objective was Canberra to Tumut. Obviously we had no time to go astray |
- | So the Tuesday night before Anniversary Day found us in the Canberra car of the Kosciusko | + | |
- | - | + | So the Tuesday night before Anniversary Day found us in the Canberra car of the Kosciuszko |
- | Alex, Colley, | + | |
- | to Hotel Canberra standard, and nobly took on th.; job of feding | + | Alex Colley, |
- | We said goodbye to Mr.Storen where his road crosses the Goodradigbee and, after lunch, travelled the five miles downstream to camp near the hut of Mr. Bob.Reed, Mr, Reed is an amazing old man - aged 70, grower of prize gladioli by the thousand, expert bushman and apparently also expert walker. He told us that night that, after visiting his daughter in Nyngan, he decided to walk home - its only 400 miles, and it was off-time for gladioli. | + | |
+ | We said goodbye to Mr. Storen where his road crosses the Goodradigbee and after lunch, travelled the five miles downstream to camp near the hut of Mr. Bob Reed, Mr. Reed is an amazing old man - aged 70, grower of prize gladioli by the thousand, expert bushman and apparently also expert walker. He told us that night that, after visiting his daughter in Nyngan, he decided to walk home - its only 400 miles, and it was off-time for gladioli. | ||
Next morning, after another call on Mr.Read for advice and boot repairs, we set off up Cooleman Creek. At his suggestion, we turned off to the left about a quarter mile up the creek in a red cutting and followed the " | Next morning, after another call on Mr.Read for advice and boot repairs, we set off up Cooleman Creek. At his suggestion, we turned off to the left about a quarter mile up the creek in a red cutting and followed the " | ||
- | For those who might wish to make an Easter scamper of this trip (and it could be done if transport could be arranged), time could be saved by turning off to the right where a branch track is shown in the map. This ttl_cs | + | |
- | However, we were in no hurry, so we followed the main track to wher,, tt crosses the travelling stock route not far from Peppercorn, and then set off along the T.S,B, towards Broken Cart Clearing. At this stage we acquired | + | For those who might wish to make an Easter scamper of this trip (and it could be done if transport could be arranged), time could be saved by turning off to the right where a branch track is shown in the map. This takes |
- | a hut marked on the map (the night promised to be'cold), we continued walking, | + | |
- | only to find that the hut is a deserted and dilapidated mine, whose pest diggings have made a horrible mess of the head waters of Broken Cart Creek. All this country was apparently rich in gold and th re are signs of past mining activity everywhere. Here we first encountered the briar rose, which presumably came with the mines, and is now as common as blackberry bushes in Kangaroo Valley. | + | However, we were in no hurry, so we followed the main track to where it crosses the travelling stock route not far from Peppercorn, and then set off along the T.S.R towards Broken Cart Clearing. At this stage we acquired |
- | We camped by the creek, and the night was cold, judging by the ice on our water bucket next morning, and the heavy frost - though we felt nothing | + | |
- | but a slight chilliness towards dawn. We felt more of the cold when, setting | + | We camped by the creek, and the night was cold, judging by the ice on our water bucket next morning, and the heavy frost - though we felt nothing but a slight chilliness towards dawn. We felt more of the cold when, setting off dawn Broken Cart Creek, we began crashing through frost-covered |
- | off dawn Broken Cart Creek, we began crashing through frost-covered | + | |
- | Soon we struck what at the time we thought to be the remnants of | + | Soon we struck what at the time we thought to be the remnants of the reputed |
- | the reputed | + | |
- | the inland on a small scale). You will hear more of these water races liter | + | We later met the man who took the air-compressor plant down to the big mine on the Goobarragandra, |
- | but, for those who have nuver met them, I may add that they often run for miles, usually some distance above the level of the stream, and, when disused and filled with leaves, look vary like an old and eroded track, | + | wagon from Micalong and taken straight down the Mountain side, with the four wheels of the wagon chained and three trees on behind to brake it |
- | We later met the man who took the air-compressor plant down to the big mine on the Goobarragandra, | + | |
- | waggon | + | Our mine-race, of course, ended at a mine - a fairly |
- | four wheels of the waggon | + | |
- | Our mine-race., of course, ended at a mine - a fairly | + | Here was the large mine of which we had heard, and the beginnings of a well-marked bridle track, a few hundred feet above the river, which we were to follow for the rest of our trip, as it gradually broadened and finally became the main road into Tumut. Without this track the Goobarragandra would be mile-an-hour country - it is surprisingly |
- | the creek had been very open, but now it appeared to narrow and drop more steeply, Hence we decided to climb out on the right hand side and follow the ridge for some way. This, incidentally, | + | Near this junction are the remains of another large mine, and the track becomes wide enough for a cart. As we walked along the next morning, we were surprised to see that for miles the water-race from this mine had been cleaned out and was running - in fact, it was not till then that it dawned on us what these channels were. After a few hours' walking the mystery resolved itself. We came out on a large, very green flat with a hut, and could hear the whirring of machinery, Closer inspection showed the machinery to be an electric generator, operated by power from the water-race. The owner told us that he had cleared and extended the old race, and |
- | (though dirty), as a recent fire had destroyed the undergrowth. We dropped into the creek ag ein just below a waterfall, and after some further scrambling along the side of the creek, emerged on the Gooberragandre for lunch. | + | was also using the water for irrigation (hence the green-ness). He demonstrated |
- | Here was the large mine of which we had heard, and the beginnings | + | |
- | of a well-marked bridle track, a few hundred feet above the river, which we | + | Eventually we dragged ourselves away from these attractions and, filled with milk and our pockets bulging with walnuts, said goodbye to our friend, his two dogs, and Temmy the cat, and continued on our way. He had told us that eucalyptus-getters |
- | were to follow for the rest of our trip, as it gradually broadened and finally became the main road into Tumut. Without this track the Goobarragandra would be mile-an-hour country - it is surprioin-ly | + | getters and, following the latter, the seedlings |
- | Near this junction are the remains of another large mine, and the track becomes wide enough for a cart. As we walked along the next morning, we were surprised to see that for miles the water-race from this mine had been cleaned out and was running - in fact, it was not till then that it | + | |
- | dawned on us what these channels were. After a few hours' walking the | + | That day was to be our rest day, so early in the afternoon we found ourselves the ideal camp site and settled down to an orgy of washing and damper making. Bill hopefully tossed- morsels of bacon and grasshopper |
- | mystery resolved itself. We came out on a large, very green flat with a | + | |
- | hut, and could hear the whirring of machinery, Closer inspection showed | + | The rest of the trip offered no particular excitement - along the river the next day past Goobarragandra station end the still of our eucalyptus-getters, |
- | 5. | + | then into Lacmalac early the next morning to order a car into Tumut. After a few hours spent exploring the town and admiring the avenues |
- | the machinery to be an electric generator, operated by power from the water- | + | |
- | race. The owner told -le that he had cleared and extended the old race, and | + | //Have you ever noticed the lacy light shawls\\ |
- | was also using the water for irrigation (hence the green-ness). He demon- | + | Spread on the beach at Cronulla?\\ |
- | strated | + | Op' |
- | for efficient lighting but he is awaiting a new generator and better globes. | + | Foam patterns in fleecy white colour?\\// |
- | Eventually we dragged ourselves away from these attractions and, | + | A.E. |
- | filled with milk and our pockets bulging with walnuts, said goodbye to our friend, his two dogs, and Temmy the cat, and continued on our way. He had | + | \\ |
- | told us that eucalyptue-gatters | + | |
- | of the freshly-cut narrow leaved | + | ===== DATA AND DOPA ===== |
- | getters and, following the latter, the see2lings | + | |
- | That day was to be our rest day, so early in the afternoon we found | + | When we record the fact that we recently saw a photo of Johnny Woods' taking doing its best to brighten a Second Class dog-box, we are not being nasty, Perhaps the selfsame |
- | ourselves the ideal camp site and settled down to an orgy of washing and damper making. Bill hopefully tossed- morsels of bacon and grasshoerer | + | |
- | The rest of the trip offered no particular excitement - along the river the next day past Goobarragandra station end the still of our. | + | |
- | eucalyptus-getters, | + | |
- | then into Lacmalac early the next morning to order et. car into Tumut. After a few hours spent exploring the town and admiring the aVenues | + | |
- | Have you ever noticed the lacy light shawls Spread on the beach at Cronulla? | + | |
- | Optning | + | |
- | DATA AND DOPA | + | |
- | When we record the fact that we recently saw a photo of Johnny Woods' taking doing it best to brighten a Second Class dog-box, we are not being. nasty, Perhaps the selfsame: | + | |
Now do we spitefully mention that Peter Page who has been on leave from the Army has spent quite a deal of it playing golf, You do lose your condition in the Army - Oh, no.,. isn't that what you put on? | Now do we spitefully mention that Peter Page who has been on leave from the Army has spent quite a deal of it playing golf, You do lose your condition in the Army - Oh, no.,. isn't that what you put on? | ||
- | Look to your laurels, you young and beefy! Our friend, Stoddy grandmere, lead a July walk but encountered | + | |
- | Even the wisdom which comes with time does not always bring the ability to prophesy the Weather. For, as it is reputedly seven years since Araold | + | Look to your laurels, you young and beefy! Our friend, Stoddy grandmere, lead a July walk but encountered |
- | with snow outside the door and without "Ro xy" to see that he was wearing, his red. | + | |
- | flahnel. | + | Even the wisdom which comes with time does not always bring the ability to prophesy the Weather. For, as it is reputedly seven years since Arnold |
- | - e | + | |
- | A hard worker | + | A hard worker |
One of our more worthy bodies is anxious to obtain ripe Waratah seeds for the purpose of cultivation to help to ensure the survival of our flora. We would be glad of any you may gather. | One of our more worthy bodies is anxious to obtain ripe Waratah seeds for the purpose of cultivation to help to ensure the survival of our flora. We would be glad of any you may gather. | ||
- | Mr, K.A. indwood, one of the State' | + | |
- | In "The Sun" of 27th July last " | + | Mr, K.A. Hindwood, one of the State' |
- | Club may be contacted any Friday evening at No,5 Hamilton Street, City on the 3rd floor," | + | |
- | g_2aaratIMc: | + | In "The Sun" of 27th July last " |
- | @ YOUR OPTOMETRIST @ | + | \\ |
- | g @ 9 @ | + | |
- | F, GOODMAN MI.O. | + | ===== DEAR " |
- | O @ Optometrist and Optician | + | by LAC [Leading Aircraftman] Ken Taylor |
- | C @ | + | |
- | 20 Hunter Street, | + | This letter will be speeding to you shortly from somewhere along the North West Coast of Borneo my present whereabouts. AS it is I partook |
- | O Tel. B3438 @ | + | |
- | e @ | + | At sea on the first stage of the journey from Australia to Morotai I had some idea of the vastness of the northern N.G. coast with high ragged ranges subsiding into the sea. All along the coast you pass many palm fringed islands rising out of the blue waters and enveloped in fleecy clouds yellowed by the glare of the tropic sun. For the most part the mountains forming the main range of the Torricellis can be seen from |
- | g Modern Methods of Eye Examination and Eye Training @ 0 | + | |
- | e, Careful Spez.,tacie fitting. g | + | |
- | E) , @ | + | Being an amateur photographer I have been able to capture some, at least,of these scenes and will be able to show you them on my return. |
- | @ Fixing an appointmnt will facilit-cte the reservation of time f@ | + | |
- | O for giving you proper attention, but should you be unable to @ | + | Morotai seething with restless activity and buzzing with noise and clouds of brown dust rising everywhere wasn't exactly picturesque to my way of thinking but was typical of the tropics in every way. On a neighbouring island one could plainly see the volcano while out in the bay natives in their small outriggers and lakatois came to ply: small wooden models and other wares in exchange for tobacco and cigarettes. |
- | @ ring us beforehand, your visit will be welcome at any time @ | + | |
- | @ you may choose to call, | + | Next thing we were in the China Seas with a task force headed towards Borneo, Mindanao and Palawan were passed by and one dawn amidst falling bombs, screeching shells and a hail of flying lead we landed on the beachhead pushing |
- | O ,e, Ca:c _ g2IECKS@Qt 0 McMX' | + | |
- | This letter will be speeding to you shortly from somewhere along the North West Coast of Borneo my present whereabouts. AS it is I perto ,k in a recent invasion with Australian forces in this area, we have now been in occupation for some time experiencing front line activity amongst the enemy. No doubt my descriptions of the invasion, the story of Japanese aerial attacks and resisting | + | Now that resistance |
- | At sea on the first stage of thq journey from Australia to Morotai I had some idea of the vastness of the northern N.G. coast with high ragged ranges subsiding into the sea. All along th.? coast you pass many palm fringed islands rising out of the blue waters and enveloped in fleecy clouds yellowed by the glare of the tropic sun. For the most part the mountains forming the main range of the Torricellis can be seen from | + | |
- | | + | In mid river an uninhabited native village is built on long poles, most other villages have bean re-occupied. One old Malay whom we met told us of his Japanese treatment, It could be evidenced by scars of whip-lashes and twisted bones and flesh - not very pretty I can assure you. |
- | from past happy wanderings amongst the blue gums and eucalyptus of the Australian bushlands'I think the gorgeous colourings of the dawns and sunsets of the islands would arpeal | + | |
- | Being an amateur photographer I have been able to capture some, at least,of these scenes and will be able to show y,u them on my return. | + | If one gets a little time out he can always appreciate the better things but dent have too many illusions as to the North, There' |
- | Morotai seething with restless activity and buzzing with noise and clouds of brown dust rising everywhere wasn't exactly picturesque to my way of thinking but was typical of the tropics in every way. On a neighbouring island one could plainly see the volcano while out in the | + | |
- | bay natives in their small outriggers and lakatois came to ply: small wooden models and other wares in exchange for tobacco and cigarettes, | + | |
- | 8 | + | |
- | Next thing we were in the China Seas with a task force headed towards Borneo, Mindanao and Palawan were passed by and one dawn amidst falling bombs, screeching shells and a hail of flying lead we landed on the be-)chhead nushing | + | |
- | Now that resistence | + | |
- | In mid river an uninhabited native village is built on long poles, most other villages have bean re-occupied. One old Malay whom we mgt told us of his Japanese treatment, It could be evidenced by scars of whip-lashes and twisted bones and flesh - not very pretty I cn n assure you. | + | |
- | If one gets a little time out he can always appreciate the better things but dent have too many illusions as to the North, There' | + | |
I had intended writing to Edna Garrad but today I received a photograph from the Committee and thought I'd write and thank you for it. | I had intended writing to Edna Garrad but today I received a photograph from the Committee and thought I'd write and thank you for it. | ||
- | Please give my regards to Tkina and the best to all of you. | + | |
- | Photos are really appreciated, | + | Please give my regards to Edna and the best to all of you. |
+ | |||
+ | Photos are really appreciated, | ||
Thanks again and kind regards to all round from | Thanks again and kind regards to all round from | ||
- | Your old "bluey humper" | + | |
- | IF, WHEN YOU READ THIS MAGAZINE, THE | + | Your old "//bluey humper//"\\ |
- | CLUB HAS NOT A HOME LET US KNOW YOUR IDEAS, | + | KEN TAYLOR |
- | AGONY COLUMN | + | \\ |
- | I once advertised in the papers for Welkers. I hed dene everything I c,uld think of to find some congenial company but almost without result, Suddenly the idea of advertising popped into my head and then I.wondered why it had not occurred to me before because for months past I had been reading the " | + | |
- | Even before this there were, of course, periods of doubt. How, for example,.should I rid myself of the undesirables should any such become attached to me? I eventually inserted the advertisement with the problem unsolved. Having had advertisements for board completely ignored I was convinced that if I received one reply I would be lucky. | + | **//IF, WHEN YOU READ THIS MAGAZINE, THE CLUB HAS NOT A HOME LET US KNOW YOUR IDEAS.//** |
- | I was disconcerted almost | + | \\ |
- | My tardiness in enquiring for replies was due to the afore-mnitioned | + | |
- | I could not bring myself to open the letters in piblic | + | ===== AGONY COLUMN |
- | The second letter was not, I am afraid, of such high standard. The writer addressed me as "Dear Brother" | + | |
- | The renaining | + | I once advertised in the papers for Walkers. I had done everything I could think of to find some congenial company but almost without result. Suddenly the idea of advertising popped into my head and then I wondered why it had not occurred to me before because for months past I had been reading the " |
- | TO, | + | |
- | what it was all about, a third was from a young fellow who wrote in purple ink and advised that he stood "five feet eleven under the shower", | + | Even before this there were, of course, periods of doubt. How, for example, should I rid myself of the undesirables should any such become attached to me? I eventually inserted the advertisement with the problem unsolved. Having had advertisements for board completely ignored I was convinced that if I received one reply I would be lucky. |
- | I had not heard again from the person who wrote first in such heste and this puzzled me, | + | |
- | My friend who stood under the shower was a curious person. He was young, appeared to be subject to sudden enthusiasms and was such a mixture of hot and cold that I was never sure of his keenness. It was finally arranged that, he should come down the coast with us one weekend but, at the appointed hour, a terrific rain storm broke over th, city and he did not put in an appearance. We were surprised that he could be po easily prevented when he was so used ' | + | I was disconcerted almost |
- | Still no word came from No l. I was completely mystified and groped 1 for a possible motive, - | + | My tardiness in enquiring for replies was due to the aforementioned |
- | Two letter | + | |
- | in Queensland for years but complained about the difficulty of getting company. I decided to visit both families one weekend but was consumed with doubt about a nicety in etiquette. Should I tell one family about the other, seeing that both had confided in me? My dilemma vanished soon when both families avowed that they were already the best and closest friends, To meet these families was like an unexpected breath of a gay Spring in the middle of a dreary Winter.; they delighted in the country -.the scenery,, the flowers, the wild life. One family had an exterAive | + | I could not bring myself to open the letters in public |
- | Eventually I had a phone call from my number one reply and a meeting was arranged after work. A very tall, almost huge man confronted me, and, thinking of the sub-tropical heat, I wrote him off fifty per cent. "I am sorry", | + | |
- | found him a very interesting person and much more promising than his opening pronouncements would suggest. | + | The second letter was not, I am afraid, of such high standard. The writer addressed me as "Dear Brother" |
- | 11, | + | |
- | reputatio; | + | The remaining |
- | A few weeks bcf, | + | |
- | CULTIV: | + | I had not heard again from the person who wrote first in such haste and this puzzled me. |
- | --- | + | |
- | A Visit to the For? | + | My friend who stood under the shower was a curious person. He was young, appeared to be subject to sudden enthusiasms and was such a mixture of hot and cold that I was never sure of his keenness. It was finally arranged that he should come down the coast with us one weekend but, at the appointed hour, a terrific rain storm broke over the city and he did not put in an appearance. We were surprised that he could be so easily prevented when he was so used to living his life under the shower. |
- | by Arbores | + | |
- | There is no sign-post on the main highway | + | Still no word came from No l. I was completely mystified and groped 1 for a possible motive. |
- | The winding forest road leads down? protected along its edges, not by the usual white posts, but by young saplings of trees which will grow up with silver-white stems, and be an object lesson for engineers who plan " | + | |
+ | Two letters | ||
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+ | Eventually I had a phone call from my number one reply and a meeting was arranged after work. A very tall, almost huge man confronted me, and, thinking of the sub-tropical heat, I wrote him off fifty per cent. "I am sorry", | ||
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+ | A few weeks before | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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+ | ===== CULTIVATING | ||
+ | //A Visit to the Forestry | ||
+ | by Arbores | ||
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+ | There is no sign-post on the main highway | ||
+ | |||
+ | The winding forest road leads down, protected along its edges, not by the usual white posts, but by young saplings of trees which will grow up with silver-white stems, and be an object lesson for engineers who plan " | ||
If you are interested in street tree-planting - Mr.Martin can give you very valuable suggestions especially that of a wattle which does not get the borer and should therefore life indefinitely (acacia elata). Can you imagine anything lovelier than a street lined with wattles? | If you are interested in street tree-planting - Mr.Martin can give you very valuable suggestions especially that of a wattle which does not get the borer and should therefore life indefinitely (acacia elata). Can you imagine anything lovelier than a street lined with wattles? | ||
- | Or you young bushwalker-newly-weds, | ||
- | Anyhow, street-tree-friends, | ||
- | if you have a Saturday afternoon to spare, and want to learn something about our native trees and shrubs under cultivation, | ||
- | BACKYARD BTJHWALKING | ||
- | In the bush there is no winter. It reflects more truly the essential Australian climate than cultivated conventional gardens with their alien plants, These give an impression for a few brief months of resting, except for the exuberant flowering Peaches and plums which don their party frocks to greet a spring which is yet some months away. The wildlings of the bush (like experi,nced walkers) know better than to rest while the going is good, After a succession of dry winters they wal,come the moist conditions now prevailing and all but a few plants are putting out new shoots and donning new leaves. | ||
- | In our little p,lot of bushland things an, going withalas! a few tragedies, Six flourishing boronia leifolia lants succumbed to the wet conditions end the Christmas b,J11 se.Alinos r:sented the surplus moisture, The rock lilies have enjoyed it however and are bursting prematurely into flower. Dylwinnias planted 18 months ago are now flourishing and coming into flower, a yellow everlasting has | ||
- | grown into a husky ,Ilant and has just finished blooTing, The waratahs are still small and so with rieinocarpus, | ||
- | So it may be winter by the calendar but in the bush the annual flower show has' | ||
- | PADDY PALLIN, | ||
- | 327 George Street, SYDNEY. | ||
- | Phone B3101, | ||
- | CAMP GEAR FOR WALKERS. | ||
- | Paddy has a fairly good stock labw of cape groundsheets and ruckscks without frames. | ||
+ | Or you young bushwalker-newly-weds, | ||
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+ | Anyhow, street-tree-friends, | ||
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+ | In the bush there is no winter. It reflects more truly the essential Australian climate than cultivated conventional gardens with their alien plants. These give an impression for a few brief months of resting, except for the exuberant flowering Peaches and plums which don their party frocks to greet a spring which is yet some months away. The wildlings of the bush (like experienced walkers) know better than to rest while the going is good. After a succession of dry winters they welcome the moist conditions now prevailing and all but a few plants are putting out new shoots and donning new leaves. | ||
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+ | In our little plot of bushland things are going with alas! a few tragedies, Six flourishing boronia leifolia plants succumbed to the wet conditions and the Christmas bell seedlings resented the surplus moisture. The rock lilies have enjoyed it however and are bursting prematurely into flower. Dylwinnias planted 18 months ago are now flourishing and coming into flower, a yellow everlasting has grown into a husky plant and has just finished blooming. The waratahs are still small and so with rieinocarpus, | ||
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+ | So it may be winter by the calendar but in the bush the annual flower show has begun, Casuarinas are still russet red, banksia brushes glow with sombre fire, wattles are in bloom (weeks early but not as good as usual). On the ground boronias eriostemons, |
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