S March, 1907.] Proclaimed Plants of Victoria. 137 



4. Iniprovoncnt of Poor Soils. — The use of sui)erphosphates and the 

 .adoption of some such system of rotation as oats, peas, rape, barley or 

 wheat, most of the produce tO' be fed to live stock on the farm, will at 

 once start a man on the up-grade. Grass land top-dressed with super- 

 phosphate or bonedust will rapidly increase in stock-carrying capacit\. 



Conclusion. 



But suppose our present bright prospects of profitable markets dis- 

 appear, there is no question but that with our present small population over 

 production would ensue, and much of our existing industrial buoyancv 

 would disappear also. But the farm, as a home, would remain, and 

 would offer even a better field for well-directed energv. Under such 

 ■circumstances, in comparison with trade and manufacture it is probable 

 that agriculture would be more highlv thought of than it is in periods of 

 prosperity. Its attractions to the most progressive units in the population 

 would be greater than ever. There is the old saying that the farmer is 

 the most independent of men. The endless modification of the details of 

 successful farm practice offers ample scope for everv one to de\'elop along 

 his own special line. He mav vary the piurposes for which, he uses his 

 land and still be quite as successful as his neighbours. If enthusiastic 

 at his work he mav follow his bent to its full scope and still be successful. 

 It makes nO' difference whether he specializes in crops or animals or simply 

 holds to all-round farming. There is the life-long satisfaction of feeling 

 that voiui are making progress from year to year. That next season vou 

 •will make the poorer part of your land a step nearer to the best. That 

 you W'ill weed out the least profitable of vour live stock and replace them 

 with something better than your best. That after you have weathered 

 one bad vear vou will lie in a stronger position to meet another. In a 

 Avord, it is the privilege of the farmer to know that his future is more in 

 his own hands than is tihe lot of most other men. That if he keep on 

 sound lines Nature will be true to him. and that his upward progress, 

 though it mav be slow, is not the less certain to lie sure. 



THE PROCLAIMED PLANTS OF VICTOIUA. 



{Continued from page 104.) 



Alfred J. Eivart, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S., Government Botanist; and J. R. 

 Tovey, Herbarium Assistant. 



Cape Broom. 



Cytisus canariensis. Steudel {Leguminosce). 



A hardy evergreen shrub, 4 to 10 feet high. Branches' angular; leaves, 

 with three leaflets, and, as well as the branches, clothed with soft hair or 

 down, leaflets obovate-oblong. Heads of flowers, terminal, \ellow, pod 

 clothed with white hair. A native of the Canary Islands. It should be 

 dug up before flowering, and, being perennial, the root, as well as the 

 stem, should be removed. Proclaimed for the Shires of Creswick, Glen- 

 Ivon, Heidelberg. Kyneton, Kilmore, Lilydale, Lexton, Afalmsbury, and 

 Springfield. 



