INTRODUCTORY. 



(To FIRST EDITION.) 



/ HpHIS little work is the practical outcome of many years of 

 research and observation in the subject matter on the part 

 of the Curator of the Technological Museum, Sydney. It has 

 been prepared and is being published at the present time at the 

 request of the Department of Public Instruction, which has recently 

 assumed the direct control of Technical Education in this Colony. 

 It is hoped that the information sought to be diffused will direct 

 attention to, and will stir enterprise in, the cultivation of the more 

 valuable wattles. The experiments in wattle culture in Victoria 

 and South Australia have resulted in practical success, and in 

 the latter Colony the industry is being carried on with increasing 

 vigour as a profitable pursuit. There is no sound reason why 

 similar good results should not be achieved in New South Wales, 

 which has in many parts both soil and climate well adapted for 

 this special culture. Success in this industry means a vast increase 

 in productive wealth to the Colony, and in view of that fact I feel 

 that the public should receive the full benefit of whatever informa- 

 tion may be in the possession of this Department. 



J. H. CARRUTHERS, 



Minister for Public Instruction. 

 30 May, 1890. 



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