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Now we return far west and keep to the Western railway line. 
Coreen, 6 miles from Nyngan (W. F. Blakely). Nyngan (E. F. Rogers, J. L. 
Boorman, J.H.M.). Coolabah (R. W. Peacock). Afford a grateful shade to sheep and 
cattle. Cropped by stock, Cobar (J. L. Boorman). 
The " Wilga " tree or shrub grows as a general rule on red soil, occasionally it 
grows on grey soil. I have never seen it growing on grey soil that is subject to inundation. 
Bourke (A. W. Mullen, L.S. ; J.H.M.). Brewarrina Common (C. J. McMaster). About 
30 feet, near Bourke (C. J. McMaster). In sending a photo, from this locality Mr. 
McMaster points out how sheep have eaten the foliage as high as they could reach. 
" Fairly good fodder for sheep." 
We are now less far west and are going south-west and south. 
Condobolin to Euabalong (J.H.M.). Wooyeo, Lake Cudgellico (G. Stirling 
Home). Lake Cudgellico (J. L. Boorman). Lachlan district (J. Duff). Forbes 
(Forester H. W. Garling). Marsden to Forbes (A. Murphy). Wyalong (District Forester 
A. Osborne, No. 50). 
" Native name, Wilgur. This is our most ornamental tree, attaining a height 
of 25 feet. The branches start some 3 or 4 feet from the ground and spread outwards 
for a long distance, drooping until the end leaves touch the ground. The foliage is 
dark green in colour and very dense, forming an almost impenetrable shade. Stock 
will not eat it." (K. H. Bennett, Ivanhoe, via Hay.) Mueller named this particular 
^specimen G. parviflora Lindl. var. petidula. 
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Broken Hill (Forester A. C. Loder). 
VICTORIA. 
I only have it from the Mallee district. 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
Murray Flats, west of Blanchetown (Dr. J. B. Cleland). " A large shrub." Port 
Pirie (M. Koch, No. 772). Mt. Weedina, 15 miles south of the Gawler Range (Walter 
Gill). 
Kingscote, Kangaroo Island ; Cape Donington ; Streaky Bay ; Murat and Denial 
Bays ; Fowler's Bay. All these (Dr. R. S. Rogers). 
WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
Eucla (Paul Le Mesurier). 
Propagation. The most successful cultivator of the Wilga in the Sydney district 
I ever knew was Mr. C. J. McMaster, President of the Western Land Board, who made 
a great success of it in his garden on the highest part of Point Piper. In the Botanic 
Gardens, Sydney, we have been much less successful, partly because of the moister 
conditions there. 
