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INTRODUCTORY. 
HIS little work is the practical outcome of many years of 
research and observation in the subject matter on the part 
of the Curator of the Technological Museum, Sydney. It has 
been prepared and is being published at the present time at the 
request of the Department of Public Instruction, which has recently 
assumed the direct control of Technical Education in this Colony. 
It is hoped that the information sought to be diffused will direct 
attention to, and will stir enterprise in, the cultivation of the more 
valuable wattles. The experiments in wattle culture in Victoria 
and South Australia have resulted in practical success, and in 
the latter Colony the industry is being carried on with increasing 
vigour as a profitable pursuit. There is no sound reason why 
similar good results should not be achieved in New South Wales, 
which has in many parts both soil and climate well adapted for 
this special culture. Success in this industry means a vast increase 
in productive wealth to the Colony, and in view of that fact I feel 
that the public should receive the full benefit of whatever informa¬ 
tion may be in the possession of this Department. 
J. H. CARRUTHERS, 
Minister for Public Instruction, 
30 May, 1890. 
