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GLEANINGS AND OEIGINAL MEMOEANDA. 
Ro^al Gardens some years ago, being then a smaO plant. As it increased in size and filled the pot with roots, it was 
duly shifted into larger pote, and ultimately into a plant-box two feet square, where it flowered, in the Palm-house. 
Altliough it produced both sexes of flowers, it did not, however, perfect its seeds. It may be increased by separating the 
suckers, but this must be done gradually, so as to allow the suckers time to have sufficient roots before they are quite 
separated from the plant.'*— 5o^ Mag. t. 4584, 
345. Acacia viscidula. Beniham, A handsome erect greenliouse shrub, with balls of deep 
yellow flowers in March and April. Native of New South Wales. (Eig. 173.) 
This plant IS one of the most useful of the New HoUand Acacias, not growing to a large size, and flou erlug profusely 
during aU the spring. Frazer found it on the banks of the Lachlan ; and Sir Thomas MitcheU, in September, scarcely 
in flower, at the base of sandstone mountains, in the subtropical parts of New Holland, where it formed a tree 12 feet 
high. Its leaves and branches are covered with a glutinous substance, which, when dry, cracks and gives the edges of 
the leaves and the angles of the branches a broken appearance. In our gardens this passes under the name of A. 
txiopTiylla, a very closely allied species, with short spikes of, not solitary, flower-heads, and leaves three or four times 
as broad. In this the flower-heaJs often irrnw \n nniVa V..,f +Ka„ „_„ ^„* :i„j I... 3 1 
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