BECHIXIM EDULE 



(Cliayote /. 



ITS INTRODUCTION INTO QUEENSLAND— CULTIVATION 

 AND USES. 



By LEWIS A. BERNAYS, 



(Past Prb<;ident). 



[Bead before the Boi/til Societj/ of Quermhnul, on 9th Maij, 1890.] 



The Eoyal Society of Queensland has signalised its career in 

 a manner remarkable for so young and indifferently endowed 

 an organisation, by the number and importance of its contri- 

 butions to pure science. While numerically and pecuniarily 

 weak, this Society includes among its members scientific inves- 

 tigators whose researches have added materially to the knowledge 

 of various branches of science, and whose names have made for 

 themselves a place in its ranks in older and more important 

 centres of scientific enquiry. I should not presume to ask for a 

 place among the contributions of such of my colleagues (as I lay 

 no claim whatever to scientific knowledge), were it not for a 

 belief which I strongly entertain that, in so very young a country 

 as this, there is still much to be taught in the way of developing 

 the resources of the soil, and by providing new objects of culti- 

 vation to add thereby permanently to the productions of the 

 country. This is a subject in which I have taken much interest, 

 and to which I have devoted not a little time for years past ; and 

 on such matters, therefore, I venture — with some diffidence — 

 occasionally to speak among you. 



