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I liave seen excellent specimens growing as far west as Coolabah, near Bourke. 
It is handsome enough to grow for purely ornamental purposes. 
It should supplement Acacia decurrens, our most generally diffused and most 
generally useful tanning Wattle for New South Wales conditions. 
Mr. J. E. Brown, when in South Australia, cultivated this species very largely 
in districts found suitable for it, and his general remarks on Wattle cultivation were 
chiefly written with this species in view. 
Except in very dry localities, this species is common to nearly all districts of South Australia 
north of Encounter Bay, and is occasionally to be met with along the coast from Kingston to the Glenelg 
River. Its principal habitat, however, and the one where the thoroughly typical botanical form and the 
largest trees of the species are found, is in the Adelaide hills and plains, from Encounter Bay to Clare. 
For propagation purposes seed should, if possible, be obtained from trees grown within these limits. In 
some parts of the north of the Colony there is a narrow-leaved variety, with the stem and branches covered 
with a whitish substance, which is desirable should not be propagated, as the tree is of slow growth, and 
does not attain payable dimensions.—(J. E. Brown. Reports.) 
Baron von Mueller {Select Extra-tropical Plants) says :— 
It is of rapid growth, content with almost any soil, but is generally found in poor, sandy ground, 
near the sea coast, and thus also important for binding rolling sand. 
Generally speaking, it loves a warm climate, with only a moderate rainfall. 
It, therefore, will not usually flourish at elevations over 2,000 feet. 
It is essentially a South Australian species, though it extends into both 
Victoria and New South Wales. 
Propagation. —Readily from seed. 
Mr. G. S. Perrin summarises the advaptages of this species over A. decurrens 
by stating that the former species is more amenable to culture, and can he pruned to 
a better shape, occupies less space in the plantation, and is much better stripped. 
So-called delicate plants, such as this species, may be successfully grown in 
rather cold districts, e.g ., Blue Mountain, Moss Vale, &o., in New South Wales, by 
taking advantage of a fact well known to gardeners, namely, they should be planted 
with a westerly aspect, so that the sun will not shine on them too early after a 
severe frost. 
A New Zealand correspondent writes :—“ Vijcnantha trees, 4 years old, are 
6 feet high, and 2 inches in diameter at 3 feet from the ground, in the Auckland 
district of New Zealand. Land rather strong, with sand in it, and on a clay 
subsoil.” 
In another instance in this district, the scrub was cut, the land ploughed in 
strips, 10 feet apart, and the seed drilled in at the rate of 1 lb. to the acre. Since 
then the trees have been allowed to grow wild, never having been thinned or the 
land cleared, or, in fact, having one.penny spent on them. In six years the best 
trees were over 10 feet high, and 3^ inches in diameter, and the decurrens trees were 
over 20 feet high, and 5 inches in diameter. 
