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I give a list of contents of the work : 



PART I. 

 Demand :iml supply of bark. 



Wattle-bark in Natal. 

 What Now South Wales may do. 



. THE SOIL. 



/ ) General considerations. 

 (t>) Preparation of the land, 

 (c) Moisture. 



Objections to Wattle-growing con- 

 sidered. 



. THE SEED. 

 () Commerce in Wattle Seed. 



(&) Quantity of seed required to 

 the acre. 



(c) Preparation of seed for ger- 

 mination. 



(a) The Bamboo method of tree- 

 planting. 



(c) Broadcast sowing. 

 Addendum. 



THE TREE AND ITS BABK. 



(a) Pruning and thinning. 



(6) Time of year for stripping. 



(c) How to strip. 



(<1) Age and size of trees. 



(e) To increase bulk of bark. 

 (/) Fibre in barks. 



((/) Drying of bark. 

 ('//.) (Jrading of bark. 



(f) Export, packing, &c. 



(fr) Adulterations or substitu- 

 tions. 



PROFITS AND Loss AND MINOR 

 INDUSTRIES. 



Profits to be derived from Wattle 



cultivation. 

 I >etailed estimates. 

 Extracts. 

 Technical education in leather and 



tanning materials. 

 Wattle galls. 

 Wattle gums. 

 Wattles as drugs. 

 Wattle blossom. 

 Brief bibliography of Wattle-barks. 



PART II. 



The best New South Wales Wattle- Acacia bincrrata. DC. 



barks. Acacia data, A. Cunn. 



. I cm-la (Icciirrai* group of Wattles. Acacia leioplti/Ua, Benth. 

 Actidii )>u<-nantlKi, Benth. duced). 



A(-<i<-ia IK.' nnin err is, Sieb. 



(intro- 



PART III. 



Notes on New South Wales Wattles. 



A few general remarks on Morpho- 

 logy. 



Wattles and the poets. 



Brief bibliography of the botany 

 of Australian Acacias. 



New South Wales Acacias arranged 

 in botanical sequence. 



Notes on the species of New South 

 Wales Acacias, arranged in al- 

 phabetical order. 



Vernacular names. 



Index. 



Botanical Name. Decurrens, Latin, " running down or along;" decurrent, 

 in allusion to the bases of the leaf-stalks, which run along the branchlets, 

 forming a ridge more or less prominent. 



1. Variety normalis, Bentham. 



Vernacular Names. The " Black Wattle " of the Sydney district. 

 (N.B. Australians are not always unanimous or consistent in the use of 

 the terms Black and Green Wattle for varieties A. decurrens.) " Sydney 

 Wattle," the common Black Wattle of the older colonists. 



Aboriginal Name. Formerly known as " Book-kerriking " by the 

 aborigines of the Counties of Cumberland and Camden, New South Wales 

 (Macarthur). 



