"Sydney Botanic Gardens. 
" If it be stated that the Botanic Garden of Sydney is one of the 
oldest in the world, it may be thought to be harmless exaggeration. 
That of Oxford 1B older, Kew is older, some of the older Italian 
been Btyled Botanic, and have done botanical work 
S ?i/;«i "i A ydn6y iS Ben \° r *° that of Cambridge, Edinburgh, 
all the official American gardens, and many others. Furthermore, 
as a combined botanical and hort iment that of 
Sydney is, by common consent, admitted to the front rank of the 
world's institutions. 
"It has grown with New South Wales, and its growth has been 
so gradual that a certain amount of research has been necessary 
to ascertain certain facts in its development. 
PK-iT lle i C ^ 0ny „ W f S J f ? Unded on January 26, 178S. Governor 
Phillip had collected both at Rio de Janiero and at the Cape 
,n!1I,y | '■""•"; " ''-■ *-"ih- 1" had !,u,uh, wheat and other 
cereals from h„,i ,„ I. s imil | , <, wirh finding shelter for 
«!!K° P * + i " [ ; ' li:, M Jaml r '"' ;i f;lrai :,ui - ; "'' 1 ^- This was 
hf ' Mr ;',° { th M».v<em l^anie Uard.-n :UI | -,„ , , in of the name 
tarm (Jove, on which it abuts. 
" The creek which runs through the Garden and which is made 
as lural as possible under the circumstances is the stream 
cTse e ofT^ G ^"- rn " r : Phi! ' i,/s ,i,M . P lan : a »d doubtless was the 
marked 'a 
have the 1 
other grain 
"Some time after 1790 the Governor gave Nicholas Devine a 
Sra°l^T Pa ^ y ^ ! P ° r S° n ° f land at Par° m dS Cove "and 
of %Z ? >n the 'Sy dn ey Gazette ' in 1803 regarding a theft 
of apple-tree plants from this early horticulturist. 
M^rot' w^f, Martyr f''r A i Uir ' PaW > Irving, Gerald, and 
time o a ?l'thTrn tranSP ° rt S d f0r What we 8hould at the present 
in ITQl th p e Q expr eaS ion ot moderate political opinions. This was 
w™ n ? a P^ rfiha8 ecl or leased a piece of land in the 
Srden betwpn I Tuition has it that he was buried in his 
Siden^J >™S th the W1S lmg fcree and the creek > but I have no 
evidence, and thy precise site is unknown. 
or garden was primarily to 
Aiftime Britth T ffl d t0 T the Government Garden. By 
gardener wtw i^" in the , infant CO,on y> md ' the 
aDDroT«l ' q„ n ? f instructions to supply those who may be 
Sated from a farnf-nt°? "S "^ S e P lace ^ >«<»^ dif T^ n - 
ofthe Zate at rilUTOffh ?' , The , £aCt ' S *at partly because 
crops w^rfatSd Vj ^ ^ ant I ?■* because the cereal 
impossible to cult 
vhich accordingly 
