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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
quick growth, beginning from the third year to 
convert its alburnum into perfect wood, which is 
of so fine a grain and so hard as to he 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 hunches of pink-coloured, papilionaceous 
blossoms, whose beauty, like that of the moss- 
rose, is enhanced by the bristly covering of the 
stalk and calyx. 
