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This Newsletter Is Late, As Usml, but I Was Not at Hcme for 8 Weeks Anc! There Nas So Nuch to Catch up On Dear -&@nkrs This newsletter is late, as usml, but I was not at hcme for 8 weeks anc! there nas so nuch to catch up on. The Acacia Stuay Grcup is now in semi-recess. Uniess there is ar,ctkler le26Er a~pintdI will be packing up tle grcup assets sver L5e next few mnt,s and ccxn?lz+ing L\e Lkee slide sets which .have cem cn going for so lcng. mere are sm slides to take and scne to - < be dupiicated. L It was with sane dismay tiat aft= not using Lh ASG accsunt for some months I found, the PNZ Eank was char5ing a $4 per mnt5 fee on it although title balance was over $500. Cn inquiring I was told that there were ot!typs of fee exanpt . accounts whers the fee was not applicable. I closed the acccunt and took the zccount to +he NAE aanic whe1c-e t!!e munt precludec! fees. If bank fees are charge5 at such levels it means small orqanisaticns might have to operate on a cash reserve only and SWrules will have to be amended. There have not been a lot of requests for s&, so I am offering current members one last cpportunity to request seed. A- OF SEEDS JZXH TBE ~s~~~~~~~m~~~CF~Eli.Youcan~upt336 bts of seed EUT BE SURE TI3 35A EUSIXES SIZE S.A.E. (45~. stamp) for each lot of l2. Seeds will nct be smt unless t!e correct envelopes with --stage are received. (Overseas iminm~sto follcw the usual procedure.) I have beer^ writing a pcje, "Stirring the 2ct" for t!!e Victorian newsletter. One topic was stady groups and in it i made sane caments abut ASG frcm which a passage was inissing. anplete article is re~rintdhere. Nax l~mwalland mce 'hslin have con-ibutd itam and others frm within anc2 outside the group hve sent letters and information, so this my last newsletter is pmwly the largest I have put out. The current mailing list is L-hcluc!ed so there will be a record of interesteci pecple if some one is found to lead the group in future. A list of the major inaterial assets of the group is included wit! the financial statement. I have fcund time recently to plant seed -&ch has built up over the yews. This year I have planted in pots, cut in ti.19 open, in a frame which sucprts 16 5" pots. I use this systm fcr grcwi~giris seeds (mostly non-native, but including all the native species for which I can get seed). I have ken leader of the group for nearly six years. It is difficult to know what has been achieved. Not nucn in the way of forrnal study of acacias, but then the group as a whole ,has never achievecl a lot in that line. A number of members have inaividually acnieve quite a lot at the -scnal level as is apparent in several boo~sthey nave praiucg. I ass~led"Xattles Are Golden" and 'nave made sane prqress cn the sets of slides, enjoyeci your letters sJld not written as ;~nyreplies 3s I mignt have. I shall miss ycur letters and the newsletters frm Q'ld, NSG, Tas, ACT an2 SA. I trust t!!at in tle not too distant future the Acacia Study Group will kcme functional zgain. xqarcis Eruce Clark. A.S.G.A.P. ACACIA STUDY GRCUI? FImCIAL BALAIqCE SHEET 1996-7 Incane Bzlance 1/7/96 803.65 Plenbership fees, sales and donations 263.85 Interest on Account 2.90 Cash on hanc! 1/7/96 Expenses Postage, envelopes etc. 3 x Slide cases # 30.00 Newsletter duplication 11.65 Adjustment on past duplication + 66.05 Seeds 0.9C Banktax 0.17 Fmk fees * 12.00 Cash on nand 30/6/97 113.95 Bank balance 30/6/97 840.98 1104.75 # For the slide collection. * Charge impose by ANZ Bank for 3 months - + I had been auplicatkg at very close to cost. This adjustment is to meet the - pro rata loss of half a service contract (prepaid) when the servicing c-y went out of business. It is 4128 sheets @ 1.6C. Copying of Wattles are Golden" is a prtion of this. Acacia Study Group assets: Apart fmn rnoney in the bank and correspondence, newsletter and record files the group owns the following: see6 bank with approx. 450+ types of acacia seeds, 3 slide cases and acacia slides, 12 large mounted photographs of acacias and a copy of "Acacias of South-eastern Australia" by Terry Tame. Ac2KIA PIcmRDII During the past ten years Alice Springs SGAP members and staff of the Olive Pink Batanic Gardens have been observing small and scattered populations of this rare acacia to the south-east and more recently the east of Alice Springs. Late in 1995, members guided Marion and John SimTlons to same of the mre interesting acacias of this area. On visiting a population of Acacia pickardii sane 200 kms east of Alice Springs ws faund many of the trees carrying a good crop of flower buiis. The area was subject& to very heavy rainfall during - Januuy 1995 and it seemed that the budding probably resulted fmthis event. It was resolvec? to visit the area about every four to six wseks to observe flowering and fruiting shoula this eventuate. mst of the trees were found in full flower in early November. A further visit in January showed most of the flowers svt but no seed set could be found. It ws note3 that alrnost without exception each @uncle was swollen and on closer examination each was found to contain a small grub. Wly in !>arch it was fond t5e flowers had with- an6 fallen. After an msctensivs search for fruit a sinqle -@ wzs fount still attached to the branch. P, single se could be seen in the partly opened --. After photographs hire ta~er,,the twig with tne see? still in place was cut frm the +me and caefully =Ielivere", t=: the hermiurn in Alice Springs. Is L!xis the first collection of see5 frm this spcies? (June '95) Clarry Snitr~-&lice Sprinqs- SZAP. ( I cannot answc tie cruestisn. If anyone can hslp, write to Clarry at P.C. E3x 3583 Alice Swzinqs KT 0871.) FEMM NEMBERS: rYm Thais Eisen, .;\nnerley,C1S. :-"I am vqlie!. an jr3winq mc cmunicatlng mut Acacias out after only a fsw years of intensive grcwinq mc very little in the way of field cbservaticns I have a lcng way to go. ... I nave five species of Acacias on land near itingaroy i.e. native to the area anG hzve so far plant4 out 2-6 specimens of mother 50 ocid spcies. Anot5er 20 species are ready to go out after we have soqe mre rain and I am looking fonexd to more seed raising in spring. Cansidering the drought we had last year I am very pleased with results and I lost nothing in the heavy January rain." (June '96) Irene Cullen of Algester Qld. writes :- "I am uncertain as to whether I shall be able to continue as a maiafter the caning year. Our move to a very much smaller garden and now the death of my husband, Russell, leaves me uncertain. We have always enjoyed king me&ms of the graup and had started searching out small acacias. The dwarf form of A. frimbriata is a lovely soft foliaged bush with masses of bds - though doubt it will flower. I wonder if anyone has seen a good flowering on this form. (July '96) (I met Irene and Russell wt.10 had long been mmkrs of ASG at the 1995 Ballaarat conference. News of Russell's passing reach me just after I did the May '96 newsletter and I over looked it in the last rushed one. Sorry Irene.) Peter Harradence of Pakenham Vic. :"A couple of years ago I requested seed of L northern species which I was keen to try growing as sumner foliage plants, knming thsy would die when the cold weather came. Unfortunately the two days of sm95/6 were hopelessly inadequate." (Apr. '97) (I liked Peter's idea and tried a few myself with similar results.) Rosemary Pedler of Kwlunga SA makes a suggestion: "My husband Doug and I are just packing up to go on a Correa Study Group trip to Kangeroo Island. DO you think a similar Acacia Group trip would arouse interest? Such as a visit to the Flinders Ranges rare acacias? Or Acacia puce? ( What we need now is another LRader to orqanise it!) awn Parsloe of Kambah ACT: "An occasional wattle reaches my back yard, but my main interest lies in collecting specimens for my version of a herbarim. One species which has escaped me is A. pruinosa. I havenit seen it in the wild and any I have ken sold or given alwTs turns out to be A. schinodes with its gland humped, not sunken." - Max McDaJall of Bullen, Vic. writes:- "The issues of "Flora of Australia" (Vols. 11 a 12) on Minrosaceae will be most welcane when they are published, as there are many acacias in cultivation and in the wild which cannot be identified using keys in existing flora. I have 4 plants, two collected and two bought unlabelled which I have been unable to identify using keys to 6 state flora and L the centre. Wnen in Western Australia, I found that every second wattle I collected would nct key out using the 1st edition of Blac.ka11 mad Grieve, and half the others turned out to be A.
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