It feeds upon insects, wild fruits, and any sweets it can procure from the flowers of the Banksia and Gum-trees.
Many different species of banksia grow in great plenty in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and from the density of their foliage are very ornamental.
A shout of joy directed our attention among the boughs of a low banksia tree, where our unfortunate friend Tom sat painfully perched, only just out of reach of danger.
This unfavourable description of soil is covered with a coarse scrub, and an immense forest of banksia trees, red gums, and several varieties of the eucalyptus.
Luckily he espied a banksia tree which seemed easy to ascend; but just as he reached it the bull was upon him.
It was scarcely possible to see more than fifty yards ahead of you, so thickly grew the banksia trees.
The banksia is a paltry tree, about the size of an apple-tree in an English or French orchard, perfectly useless as timber, but affording an inexhaustible supply of firewood.
Her own canvas was hidden by draperies of dull gold silk, and beside it, on a carved stool, sprays of Banksia roses and honeysuckle soared plumelike from a vase of beaten bronze.
The breath of the snows was still ice-cool, and exhilarating as wine; its freshness penetrated and enhanced by the faint sweet scent of Banksia roses, that clothed the rickety woodwork in a fairy garment of green and ivory-white.
Leaving the Moore River we steered south by west, and after traversing a nearly level sandy plain, producing banksia and scrub, with many lagoons and swamps, in eight hours' riding reached the Norcott or Gingin Brook.
The country consists of elevated sandy downs covered with heathy bushes and a few small banksia trees, it being only on the alluvial flats of the river that there is any grass or good soil.
The country then became sandy, producing little besides scrub and a few banksia trees.
The whole country consisted of open forest land on which grew a few gumtrees (or eucalypti) with banksia and occasionally a few casuarinae.
But a broad piece of rising ground which, being sandy with banksia and casuarinae trees on it, I had considered firm proved so very soft that even my own horse went down with me and wallowed in the mud.
In the valley I saw the Banksia for the first time since we left the Lachlan.
We next crossed a flat of dry white sand on which banksia grew thickly; and then we reached some low white sandhills on which were stunted ironbark trees (eucalypti).
Casuarinae and banksia growing on grassy slopes were the next marks of a different country from that of the swamps, and at less than a mile from this point we came upon the river.
In the bank of this I found a stratum of alluvium; but beyond it the soil was granitic, and banksia was seen there for the first time after crossing the river.
This high ground was thickly wooded with stringybark trees of large dimensions, and a few other eucalypti, together with banksia and casuarinae.
We easily found a ford and, on proceeding, entered upon a tract of white sand where banksia and casuarinae were the chief trees.
Beyond it the country appeared open and good, consisting of what is termed forest land with casuarinae and banksia growing upon it.
The surface at the summit of the cliffs was broad and consisted of large blocks of sandstone, separated by wide fissures full of dwarf bushes of banksia and casuarinae.
According to the French writer Deslongchamps, there was in 1842 a Banksia Rose at Toulon, of which the stem was, at its base, two feet and four inches in circumference; while the largest of the six branches measured a foot in girth.
The Banksia is frequently used in greenhouses and conservatories as a stock for other climbing roses; and, in many cases, answers well.
The Yellow Banksia is of a bright yellow, small, and very double.
Its shoots and leaves resemble those of the Banksia Rose; the former being long, pendulous, and graceful, and the latter of the most vivid green.
The Double White Banksia is the best known, and one of the most beautiful.
Fortune's Banksia has double white flowers, much larger than usual with the species, and is greatly admired.
Over the walls hang cataracts of roses, honey-pale clusters of the Banksia rose, and pink bushes of the China rose, growing as we never see them grow with us.
As we passed through to supper, I plucked a spray of yellow Banksia rose, and put it in my buttonhole.
They have reached the villa, and turned out of the dusty highway into a great cool courtyard, that has a Moorish look, with its high arches, over which the Banksia roses tumble in cascades of yellow and white.
Up, past the villas and gardens, where the Banksia roses and wistarias are rioting over wall, and berceau and pergola, climbing even the tall trees.
A species of banksia was seen to-day under the same meridian as on the Macquarie.
The higher lands abound with good timber, the points nearest the sea being covered with Banksia integrifolia, of large dimensions, fit for any kind of boat timber.
The beloved little Banksia Rose came from China in 1807.
The big room, once the study, and still shaded by the old banksia rose, had been turned into as luxurious a bedroom as Cherry could make it.
At half-past eight she came out into the garden, to find her father somewhat ruefully studying the tumbled ruins of the yellow banksia rose.
Illustration: Frau Karl Druski] White Banksia One journeyed to a foreign land To teach the love of God.
His prayer for faith and strength went up To Him who hears all woes; An answering sign to him was sent-- The sweet White Banksia Rose.
We then continued our south by east course for four miles further over undulating sandy downs, and halted for the night in a small clump of Banksia trees which afforded plenty of wood for our fires.
The same sandy sterile country was around, thinly clothed with Banksia trees.
This plain was about three miles in width and, having traversed it, we found ourselves in a sandy country abounding with Banksia trees.
The whole of the country we passed over this morning was sandy and bad, being thinly clothed with Banksia trees; but immediately about the lake there was, as usual, good land.
He heard sounds before he saw where they came from; then Cartouche boldly plunged under the banksia arches, and there was a little cry of dismay, laughter, children's voices.
He sat down in the armchair just where he could smell the sweet-peas and the Banksia roses.
She cut great sprays from the Banksia rose and brought them back with her.
I'll go and gather a bunch of thoseBanksia roses which grow in front of the house.
Another combination we remember in the same garden was a yellowBanksia Rose and a pink monthly one climbing together up an old grey stone wall.
The little brown birds came tripping and pecking about on the grass underneath his tree-trunk, and then flew on the top of the wall, which was covered with Banksia and many other creepers.
Lampblack listened, and even in his misery was touched and soothed by the tender liquid sounds that these little throats poured out among the light yellow bloom of the Banksia flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banksia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
