No. 730, 
ACACIA SUAVEOLENS. 
Class, Order. 
POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. 
This is a native of New South Wales. 
Seeds of it were sent home among the first 
collections which arrived in this country 
from Port Jackson; it admits of no other 
mode of propagation, and must be potted in 
a mixture of loam and peat. It requires 
the protection of the greenhouse, and is a 
m $mall species. Its branches are few 
and slender; it frequently produces flowers 
when two years old : these come out in the 
beginning of winter, continuing alongtime ; 
they have a delicate and pleasing form, 
together with a very agreeable smell. 
This isa most cheering and acceptable 
plant during that time of the year in which 
gardens are often locked up by frost, or 
buried in snow. In such inclement seasons 
we may thus, through the goodness of our 
beneficent Creator, feel many innocent and 
| heart-raising pleasures in beholding His 
beautiful works. Happy e are those 
