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■Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. 



10 June. 1919. 



_;. Writing on this question, Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.R.S., the Govern- 

 ment Botanist for New South "Wales, says, " Acacias are universally 

 known in Australia as wattles, or prefaced by such adjectives as silver, 

 golden, black, green. They also bear such names as myall, boree, 

 mulga, cooba, dead finish, gidgee, hickory, umbrella bush, wait-a-while, 

 and yarran." 



Frosty Wattle (Acacia pruinosa). 



Wattles range from low straggling herbs to giant trees; with foliage 

 less th:m a quarter of an inch to 17 inches in length; the flowers of the 

 different kinds ranging from pure white to the deepest shades of yellow 

 and orange. There are wattles flowering in every month of the year, 

 and one species. Acacia relinodes, is in flower almost throughout the 



