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I give a list of contents of the work : 



PART I. 



Demand and supply of bark. 



Wattle-bark in Natal. 

 What New South Wales may do. 



The Soil. 



(a) General considerations. 



(6) Preparation of the land. 



(c) Moisture. 



Objections to Wattle-growing con- 

 sidered. 



The Seed. 

 (a) Commerce in Wattle Seed. 

 (6) Quantity of seed required to 



the acre. 



(c) Preparation of seed for 

 mlnation. 



ger- 



(d) The Bamboo method of tree- 

 planting. 



(e) Broadcast sowing. 

 Addendum. 



The Tbee and its Baek. 

 (a) Pruning and thinning. 

 (6) Time of year for stripping. 

 (c) How to strip. 

 id) Age and size of trees, 

 (e) To increase bulk of bark. 

 (/) Fibre in barks. 

 if/) Drying of bark, 

 (ft) Grading of bark. 

 (i) Export, packing, &c. 

 (k) Adulterations or substitu- 

 tions. 



Proeits akd Loss and Minob 



INDUSXBIES. 



Profits to be derived from Wattle 



cultivation. 

 Detailed 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 Vincrvata, DC. 



barks. Acacia data, A. Cunn. 



Acacia decurrens group of Wattles. Acacia leioplpylla, Benth. 

 Acacia pycnantha, Benth. duced). 



Acacia penninervis, 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. — Decwrrens, 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. 



Yernacular 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). 



