50 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



play of its drooping blossoms in August and 

 September, as if conscious that it had not 

 performed its part to nature, which has or- 

 dained, that plants should " bring forth seed 

 after their kind." It is well known, that most 

 plants will continue to give out blossoms, if 

 their flowers are cut off before seed is formed ; 

 which seems like the instinct of fowls, that 

 continue to lay eggs in the nest that is 

 plundered. 



The rose acacia is propagated by grafting 

 it on the common acacia ; therefore it thrives 

 in any soil like the parent stock. Care should 

 be taken to rub off all shoots that appear 

 below the graft. 



