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ACACIA CULTRIFORMIS. 
bloom, an agreeable variation placed in the greenhouse amongst shrubs of stouter 
growth, and leaves of more ample dimensions. Kept in a dwarf state by repeated 
pruning and shortening back the young shoots, A. cultriformis forms an excellent 
plant to place in the drawing-room during the flowering season ; or it may be 
planted in the border of a conservatory with great propriety, and if allowed to 
grow in its natural way, will speedily form a large tree. Even in a pot it will 
attain the height of fifteen or twenty feet in a few years, if not kept down by 
pruning. 
Acacias will succeed tolerably well in almost any good garden mould, but that 
which appears most suitable to them, is composed of about two-thirds sandy loam, 
and the remainder a fibrous open peat earth. They require a liberal supply of 
water during the time they are flowering, and whilst forming their young shoots. 
They may be propagated by cuttings inserted in sand, and treated in the usual 
way. 
Our figure was prepared from a large and well-grown specimen, which flowered 
last April, in one of the greenhouses at Messrs. Rollisson’s nursery, Tooting. It 
has been in their collection about fifteen years, and was originally obtained from 
New Holland. 
