FOR VICTORIAN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE. 



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Acacia falcata, Willdenow. 



East Australia. One of the best of trees for raising a woody 

 vegetation on drift-sand, as particularly proved at the Cape 

 of Good Hope. Other species serve the same purpose, for 

 instance — A. pycnantha, A. saligna, A. cyanophylla, A. 

 salicina. 



Acacia Farnesiana, Willdenow. 



Dioscorides' small Acacia. Indigenous to South Asia; found 

 westward as far as Japan; a native also of the warmer 

 parts of Australia, as far south as the Darling Kiver; found 

 spontaneously in tropical and sub-tropical America, but ap- 

 parently not in tropical Africa. Professor Fraas has recog- 

 nised in this Acacia the ancient plant. The scented flowers 

 are much sought after for perfumery. This may also be 

 utilised as a hedge-plant, and a kind of Gum Arabic may be 

 obtained from it. 



Acacia fasciculifera, F. v. Mueller. 



South Queensland. Desirable for culture on account of the 

 excellence of its easily- worked wood. 



Acacia glaucescens, Willdenow. 



Queensland and New South Wales. Extreme height, about 

 sixty feet. A kind of Myall, with hard, dark, prettily- 

 grained but less scented wood. 



Acacia harpophylla, F. v. Mueller. 



Southern Queensland, where this tree, according to Mi\ 

 Thozet, furnishes a considerable share of the mercantile 

 wattle-bark for tanning purposes. Wood, according to Mr. 

 O'Shanesy, brown, hard, heavy and elastic, used by the 

 natives for spears. 



Acacia homalophylla, Cunningham. 



The Victorian Myall, extending into the deserts of New 

 South Wales. The dark-brown wood is much sought for 

 turner's work on account of its solidity and fragrance ; per- 

 haps its most extensive use is in the manufacture of tobacco- 

 pipes. Never a tall tree. 



Acacia horrida, Willdenow. 



The Doornboom or Karra-Doorn of South Africa. A for- 

 midable hedge-bush, Avith thorns often three inches long, 

 readily available for impenetrable hedge-copses. It exudes 

 also a good kind of gum. So A. Giraffse (Burchell). 



Acacia Melanoxylon, R. Brown. 



The well-known Blackwood of our river-flats and moist 

 forest-valleys, passing also under the inappropriate name of 

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