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PART I. 
Demand and supply of bark. 
Wattle-bark in Natal. 
What New South Wales may do. 
The Soil. 
(a) General considerations. 
( b) Preparation of the land. 
(c) Moisture. 
Objections to Wattle-growing considered. 
The Seed. 
(a) Commerce in Wattle Seed. 
(b) Quantity of seed required to the acre. 
(c) Preparation of seed for germination. 
(d) The Bamboo method of tree-planting. 
(e) Broadcast sowing. 
Addendum. 
The Tree and its Bark. 
(a) Pruning and thinning. 
(b) Time of year for stripping. 
(c) How to strip. 
( d ) Age and size of trees. 
(e) To increase bulk of bark. 
(f) Fibre in barks. 
(g ) Drying of bark. 
(h) Grading of bark. 
( i ) Export, Packing, <£c. 
(fc) Adulterations or Substitutions. 
Profits and Loss and Minor Industries. 
Profits to be derived from Wattle cultivation. 
Detailed estimates. 
Extracts. 
Technical education in leather and tanning materials. 
Wattle galls. 
Wattle gums. 
Wattles as drugs. 
Wattle-blossom. 
Brief bibliography of Wattle-barks. 
PART II. 
The best New South AYales Wattle-barks. Acacia binervata, DC. 
Acacia decurrens group of Wattles. ,, elata, A. Cunn. 
,, pycnaniha, Bentli. ,, leiophjlla , Benth. (introduced). 
„ penninervis, Sieb. 
PART III. 
Notes on New South Wales Wattles. 
A few general remarks on Morphology. 
A Vat ties and the poets. 
Brief bibliography of the botany of Australian 
Acacias. 
New South Wales Acacias arranged in botanical 
sequence. 
Notes on the species of New South AVales 
Acacias, arranged in alphabetical order. 
A r ernacular names. 
Index. 
Botanical description, —Genus, Acacia (see Part XV, p. 103). 
Botanical description.— Species, A. decurrens, Willd., Spec. PI. iv, 1072. 
A handsome tree, glabrous, or more or less tomentose-pubescent. 
Branches. —More or less prominently angled, sometimes almost winged. 
Pinna\ —8-15 pairs, or sometimes even more; rarely reduced to 5 or 6. 
Leaflets (jnnnules). —Very numerous (30-40 pairs, or even more) ; linear, from under 2 lines to 
nearly 5 lines long, according to the variety. 
Flower-heads. —Small, globular, in axillary racemes, the upper ones forming a terminal panicle. 
Flowers. —20-30 in the head, mostly 5 merous. 
Calyx. —Short, broadly lobed, ciliate. 
Petals. —With slightly prominent midribs. 
Pods .—Usually 3-4 inches long; about \ inch broad, or rather more. More or less contracted 
between the seeds. 
Seeds. —Ovate (B.F1. ii, 414), small as compared with those of most other arboreous acacias. 
