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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

South Australia.—

South Australia.—

Dr. Schomburgk reports great difficulty in establishing P. pubescens. "Notwithstanding all the care used we lost them all. The plants seem to fail during winter. The other species, P. juliflora, does uncommonly well in our climate . . . . I hope that the seed will grow and the trees flourish, so as to induce a further demand for large quantities wherewith to stock the" arid plains of South Australia on a large scale, thereby vastly increasing the resources of that peculiar country in a stock-raising view."