cultivation. The many journeys of exploration undertake 
Allan Cunningham resulted in lino collections of fruits and i 
being brought to Sydney. 
that a pitcher-plant (Cephalotus) had been discovered at King 
George's Sound, and that specimens are in the Botanic Gardens. 
That the gates are to be closed except to the military 
(September 26). That an olive tree six years old was bearing 
flowers; and that cotton grown in the Gardens was sent to 
Glasgow (presumably to the elder Hooker, for report). A list of 
fruit* cultivated in the Sydney Botanic Gardens was published in 
the Gardeners' Magazine of London of that year. 
" The Sydney Botanic Gardens have, apart from their aesthetic 
been intimately bound up with the material 
welfare of the colony. The establishment has a most honourable 
record of service in regard to the introduction of useful plants 
into Australia. Much of this work has, of course, been rendered 
for many years unnecessary by reason of the establishment of so 
many reputable firms of seedsmen and nurserymen. The Sydney 
I '."Mi, c < lardens has also laid the foundations of the grand" work 
now undertaken by the Departments of Agriculture of the various 
States, much of it, of course, entirely beyond the scope of a 
modern l.otanic -ardt-n. Th.- Svdie-v I'.omi.i.- harden is classic 
ground. Its area includes, as has already been shown, the site of 
the first farm, where corn was grown for the infant colony, where 
fruit trees of all kinds— apples, oranges, olives, vines, bananas- 
were farst acclimatised, where it was shown that the cotton and 
innumerable economic plants could grow in New South Wales, 
while by means of Wardian cases and glasshouses, it was the 
means of establishing and propagating valuable tropical economic 
plants for what is Queensland, Xorthern Australia, and Polynesia; 
such plants were chiefly obtained from the islands of the Pacific, 
Batavia, Calcutta, and London. The methods and objects of the 
Sydney Botanic Gardens have changed with the necessities of the 
times, but I say, without fear of successful contradiction, that 
deserves the title of 'botanic' than „ 
any other period of its existence. 
" Not only was the Sydney Botanic Garden engaged in the pro- 
pagation and exchange of plants, but seeds, cuttings, roo 
«'tc, weiv extensively supplied in the late twenties to < Brisbane 
town. 1 lams so propagated were not onlv distributed to public 
; , r ri,M ""•-•'"" •'■ >nrh private and official persons as the 
Governor might see fit to direct. 
n " Tn . . th ? 3'ear 1828 (July 11), Fraser was addressed by the 
Colonial Secretary as the 'Superintendent, Botanical Garden.' 
lney were v ihose d and he official i y 
J."-"' ' ' '■ ■ ' : - - ■ ■ -.■ -. -..,. - 
times • Superintendent, Governing , occasion he 
signs himself ' H. M. Bot. Collector.' 
