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were to be seen in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens 

 in 1861, those doing best being the varieties Black 

 Hamburgh, Black Prince, White Sweetwater, Wantage, 

 Xeres, and Muscatel Gordo Blanco. In 1871, a num- 

 ber of wine-producing varieties were introduced from 

 South Australia, and in the same year J. G. Cribb 

 presented the Gardens with thirty European and 

 thirty American varieties ; the latter were distributed 

 to growers in Toowocmba, Warwick and Slant liorpe 

 a year or two afterwards. In 1908, the area under 

 vines was 1,554 acres which produced 4,239,98()lbs. 

 of fruit ; 77,698 gallons of wine made, ; and 619 gallons 

 of brandy distilled. In 1865, thirty plants of the Zante 

 currant were received from Victoria by the Acclimatisa- 

 tion Society, and in the same year, F. M. Bailey 

 presented 300 cuttings of this variety to the Society, 

 200 of which were at once distributed. In 1871, 

 the Sultana raisin was growing in the Brisbane 

 Botanic Gardens, and in 1892 and 1893, forty thousand 

 cuttings of raisin and currant grapes were distributed 

 by the Department of Agriculture. 



GuAVA {Psidium spp.) 



Recorded by Backhouse as growing in Brisbane in 

 1836, but kinds not stated. P. Cattleyanum, the 

 Strawberry Guava ; P. Guava, the Apple Guava ; and 

 P. littorale, the Gooseberry Guava, were growing in the 

 Brisbane Botanic Gardens in 1861. 



Jujube {Zizyphus jujuha). 



Growing in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens in 1864, 

 and distributed to growers in the North, where it has 

 taken such a hold of the lands in some localities as to 

 be regarded as quite a nuisance. 



Kei Apple (Aberia Caffra). 



Introduced and distributed by the Acclimatisation 

 Society in 1876. My grandfather probably was the 

 first to introduce this plant into Australia, he having 

 taken plants to South Australia in 1839. 



LiTCHi {Nephelinm Litchi). 



M. C. O'ConnelL Port Curtis, and a gardener in Bris- 

 bane, each received a plant from the Sydney Botanic 

 Gardens in 1854, and it was represented in Captain 

 Wickham's garden, at Newstead, and in the Brisbane 



