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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
growth, beginning from the third year to con¬ 
vert its sap into perfect wood, which is of so fine 
a grain and so hard as to be substituted by 
turners for box in many kinds of light work. 
Its foliage, of a bright green, is peculiarly light 
and elegant. The species of Acacia most com¬ 
monly cultivated are the Pseudo-Acacia, with 
white blossom, and the Acacia glutinosa, so 
named from a clammy moisture which covers 
its branches, with rose-coloured flowers. The 
Rose Acacia is a highly ornamental shrub, with 
large bunches of pink-coloured, papilionaceous 
blossoms, whose beauty, like that of the moss- 
rose, is enhanced by the bristly covering of the 
stalk and calyx. 
