80 AUSTRALIAN GRASSES AND PASTURE PLANTS 



This very useful tree is easily re-established where it 

 was once growing by keeping cattle and sheep from browsing 

 on the young plants, which develop from the seed lying in the 

 ground, until they are sufficiently tall and strong to take care 

 of themselves. Horses may be allowed to graze in paddocks 

 where the young Myalls are growing, for they do not eat the 

 leaves. When allowed to grow undisturbed for a time the 

 Myall produces an abundance of seeds which, when mature, 

 retain their vitality for many years, and sometimes lie in the 

 ground for a very long period, indeed until the weather and 

 soil conditions are favourable for their germination. The 

 Myall is well worth conserving, and extensively cultivating in 

 the interior, both for its fodder value and for its very useful 

 timber. It is easily raised from seed sown in situ, and as the 

 resulting plants grow fairly rapidly when protected from 

 stock, there will be no difficulty in doing this. A well-grown 

 specimen has a trunk about three feet in circumference and 

 yields an excellent timber, which is heavy, close in the grain, 

 and of a rich, dark-brown colour, and beautifully marked 

 having a delightful fragrance of violets, which it retains for 

 a long time after being cut. 



Quandong (Fusanus acuminatus) occurs in all the Aus- 

 tralian States, but principally in the hotter and drier parts. 

 It attains a height of from twenty to thirty feet, and has lance- 

 shaped leaves from two to three inches long. Its drought- 

 enduring properties are remarkable, for its growth seems to 

 be affected neither by dry weather nor by the hot winds which 

 periodically blow over the interior. It is a useful fodder- 

 producing and important fruit-bearing tree, whose foliage 

 is much relished by cattle and sheep, and they often eat the 

 young plants, even when grass and herbage on the grazing 

 areas are plentiful. The fruit of the Quandong, occasionally 

 called Native Peach, is red when ripe, from one and a-half to 



