780 THE FLORA OF NORFOLK ISLAND, 



as well as some plates of his illustrations, filling two large volumes 

 with the former. 



Bauer died on the 17th of March, 1826, in the 66th year of his 

 ao-e. The l)ulk of his collections was bequeathed to his legal 

 heirs; but the two volumes of miniature paintings of Australian 

 plants and animals he left to his brother Francis, by whom they 

 were afterwards (1842) sold to Mr. Robert Brown. His herbarium 

 and skins of animals and birds, wdth the sketches illustrative of 

 them, were purchased for the Imperial Museum of Vienna; and 

 a o-reat many drawings, as well as copies of the Illustrationes, 

 were still, in the year 1829, in the possession of his brother 

 Francis at Vienna. I do not know what became of Francis' 

 collections. 



Early Government Gardens. 



Owing to the paucity of published records and to the break in 

 continuity of settlement of the Island, it is very difficult to obtain 

 details of the early Government gardens. The very beginning of 

 cultivation is recounted by Lieut.-Govr. King in his official diary 

 (Hist. Rec. N.S. Wales, ii. p. 556, et seq.). 



From that modest record we learn that on Friday, 1 4th March, 



1788:— 



" At noon finished delving and enclosing ye garden. Its size is 87 feet 

 square; the soil very rich and deep. Began squaring it out and sowing ye 

 seeds as marked in ye columns." 



Following is a list of the first seeds, Ac, planted : — 

 "Potatoes, yams, turnips, onions, lettuce, spinage, parsley, cabbage." 



On the following Monday, viz., 17th March, the following 

 sowing took place, viz. : — 



" Potatoes, beet, early cabbage, cauliflower, cress, mustard, jibbrocoli, 

 fennel, thyme, marjoram, shalots, sorrel, parsnips, parsley, carrots, corn 

 sallad, lettuce, onion, Indian corn, French beans, rhubarb, 5 cocoanuts." 



On that same day the proud entry was made : — 

 " Turnips, radishes, cabbages and lettuces are out of ye ground." 



