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the pity of it is that those who should have known the value of the tree used it in such wanton fashion that 
in a great measure it has been wiped out. The kurrajong is a vigorous grower in its native element, and 
will produce a good crop of fodder every year if the limbs and the foliage are only lopped off. But people 
were not content with that; nothing would do but they must cut down the trees. The consequence is 
that hundreds of miles of country once covered in the hilly parts with the kurrajong is now almost entirely 
denuded. The kurrajong is seen at its best in the granitic hills of the dry interior ; but it grows well all over 
Riverina, and even where there is no rocky substance at all. If we were as wise as the experience of the 
seasons of the country should make us, the whole of our country parks would bo planted with this valuable 
tree, serving as a seed reserve. 
The following hints for the propagation of the Kurrajong may be acceptable. 
First, fresh, ripe seeds, usually available about May or June, should be selected 
and removed from the pods by hand, to prevent bruising. The soil should be some good 
alluvial deposit, having a good mixture of coarse sand in it, to which some fairly well- 
decomposed leaves should be incorporated in the proportion of one-third of the alluvial 
soil. As to the sowing, if done in boxes, place some loose rubble in the bottom, then 
scatter a few leaves over them to keep the soil from percolating through the drainage, 
then fill up the boxes to within 3 inches from the top, pressing down fairly solid. 
It would be better to sink the boxes into the ground level to the surface, to prevent 
too quickly drying. Sow the seed fairly thickly, almost touching each other, then 
cover them with some soil to a depth of a quarter of an inch, or the thickness of the seed 
(which is an almost infallible guide in sowing seed), Ihen water very heavily, and mulch 
with leaves to an inch or so to preserve the moist condition until germination takes 
place. In the following autumn or winter they should be fit for transplanting to their 
permanent positions. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE No. 236. 
A. and B. Leaves showing variation in shape, 
c. Flowering twig. Flowers yellowish-white. 
D. Bud. 
E. Flower showing stellate hairs. 
F. Flower opened out. 
a. Monadelphous stamens. 
H. Pistils surrounded by stamens (from Mueller's Key to the System of Victorian Plants, 
fig. 21). 
i. Fruits. 
K. Seed coat broken open. 
L. Embryo. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 
1. Kurrajong at Balagula Station, Land District of Coonamble, County of Leichhardt, N.S.W. 
(C. J. McMaster, photo.) 
2. Kooringa Station, near Young, N.S.W. (Photo by Cecil Lewis.) 
3. Near Vernon's Pic, Warrumbungle Mountains, N.S.W. (Photo by His Honour Judge Docker.) 
4 Near Peakhurs't, a little south of Sydney. (Photo by W. Forsyth.) 
5. Remains of a Kurrajong tree eaten by rabbits in the Coolabah District, N.S.W. 
by R. W. Peacock.) 
6. Drawing of a kurrajong on a limestone hill. It is about a century old, and i suppos 
in the Yass District, N.S.W. (Artist unknowns) 
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