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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
beginning from the third year to convert 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 commonly cultivated are the Pseudo- 
Acacia, with white blossoms, and the Acacia gluti- 
nosa, 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 en¬ 
hanced by the bristly covering of the stalk and 
calyx. 
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