No, 535. 
ACACIA VERTICILLATA. 
Class. Order. 
POLYGAMIA MONG@CIA. 
A native of Van Diemen’s Island. It 
was one of the very first plants which were 
brought home from thence, having been in- 
troduced in 1780. It is a robust shrub, or 
small tree, which will attain the height of 
twenty feet, especially if planted in the full 
ground in a conservatory, for which situa- 
tion it is particularly eligible. Its hand- 
some flowers are produced in April and 
May. Our plant, which is gro against 
the back wall of a greenhouse, exhibited a 
striking instance of the effect of decortica-- 
tion, or stripping off the bark. It had 
previously borne only a few scattered 
flowers ; but last year this operation was 
performed on a branch about an inch in 
diameter, by removing the bark about the 
space of a quarter of an inch all round. 
The consequence has been that the part 
above the incision was completely loaded 
with blossoms, while all the other branches 
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