BY J. H. MAIDEN. 783 



There are the remains of the old Government Garden at the 

 Cascades (PhilUpsburgh) on Mrs. Young's land. It is a wreck 

 of a garden now mostly under Sweet Potatoes, but some of the 

 original trees are still in existence. For example, we have a huge 

 Moreton Bay Fig whose surface or buttress roots spread out 

 seventy (70) feet across. There are also huge Olive-trees, eleven 

 feet at spread of roots; a P itios-porwm undulatum thirty inches 

 in diameter, and some very large Moreton Bay Chestnuts [Casta- 

 nos2yermu7}i avMrale). 



I also noticed in this old garden, Yuccas, a Rose Apple, 

 Pomegranate, a Coral-tree {Erytlirina), a Guava forest, an edible 

 Fig, Arundo donax, Peach, Mulberry, the Blue Guava [Psidium 

 Cattleyanum), a Lisbon Lemon, Candle-nut tree (Ahitrites), and 

 a Cherimoyer. There are also the remains of a gardener's cottage, 

 built of stone, and on its ruins and about the Indian Shot, the 

 Passion Yine, and a tall Lima Bean are growing in the greatest 

 profusion. 



Phillip Island. 



On 2nd Deer., 1788, Lieut. -Go vr. King wrote as follows :— 



" At 6 a.m. I went in the coble to Phillip's Isle, where I landed on a rock 

 in Collin's Bay at half-past seven, and climbed up the hills, which I found a 

 fine rich red clay. A valley in the form of a half-moon runs round the 

 hills over Collin's Bay, and is, as well as the hills, wooded but not thick. 

 I do not suppose that there are above 1.50 pine trees on the whole island. 

 Most of the hills are covered with a thick entangled kind of reed (perhaps 

 Cyperus hcemafodes, Endl., J.H.M.) which only wants burning to clear 

 away 100 acres of ground, which would make a fine wheat land, if not too 

 dry" (Hist. Eec. N.S.W., ii. p. 601.) 



Allan Cunningham botanised on the Island (which by the way 

 was termed Pig Island by Bauer, by reason of those animals 

 being placed there), and he gave an account of his trip 

 (London Journ. Bot. i. 113-120), which was sadly interfered with 

 owing to his having been marooned there by his convict atten- 

 dants. His account of the vegetation is the best that has been 

 preserved, and is particularly valuable because the Island, though 

 small, contained some endemic species, and because, as already 

 hinted, the Island has, through the depredations of animals, been 



