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0 the climate are never realy healthy, either root or bra 
plants be used for stocks. In this I must be understood as referri 
Particularly to Queensland. No part of Australia is so wt 0 to 
Se Plant life. At times we are subject to long droughts, when the 
h untry becomes for months, or perhaps years, little better than a 
arren waste, during which the roots or seeds of the indigenous plants 
other indigenous apicien of Citrus. I should much like to see this 
: t into cultivation, so that its flowers might be 
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must be difeuteh * cross-fertilisation, so that a failure now and again 
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on the subject of stocks for fruit trees, I would like 
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lar wt, 'WO plants, as in, other natural orders far more 
" plants are used for stocks to graft and bud upon. 
