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Botanic Gardens at the end of the fifties. The tree 

 now in the Gardens fruits regula.rly. Another species 

 of this genus, viz., N. Longana, the Longan, was 

 also received by the same recipients above-mentioned 

 from the Sydney Botanic Gardens in 1854. It was 

 in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens in 1861, but is a far 

 inferior fruit to that of its ally, the Litchi. 



LoQUAT (Photinia japonica). 



Growing at Bowen Park in 18b6. 



M ANGO ( Mangifera in dica ) . 



Tlie Mango, which has become one of the most common 

 fruits along the whole coast line of Queensland, is 

 said to have been introduced by J. C. Bidwill at the 

 end of the forties. Plants were sent from the Sydney 

 Botanic Gardens in 1854 to M. C. O'Oonnell. at Port 

 Curtis, and to a gardener in Brisbane. A plant was 

 growing in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens in 1861, 

 and fruited for the first time in 18r5'/. and four plants 

 were distributed from there in 1862, and also a number 

 of grafted plants to likely growers in the Xorth in 1883. 

 The well-known varieties Alphonse and Raspberry 

 were introduced from Bombay by the Acclimatisation 

 Society in 1869. and the first-rnentioned with the 

 varieties Strawberry and Goa by the Botanic Gardens 

 about the same tim.^. Since then importations have 

 been made by the institutions named, the Department 

 of Agriculture, and privately. The production of fruit 

 in 1908 was nearly 100,000 bushels. Crops from 

 private gardens, how^^ver. are not include'.! in this 

 total . 



Mangosteen {Oarcinia mangoslana) . 



M. C. O'Connell, of Port Curtis, and a gardener in 

 Brisbane received plants of this fruit, which is 

 described as the most delicious in existence, from the 

 Sydney Botanic Gardens in 1854. Although it has 

 since beeu distributed on numerous occasions by the 

 Brisbarie Botanic Gardens and the Acclimatisation 

 So(;iety, so far has not met with success, owing no 

 doubt to the intense humidity required for perfecting 

 its growth not being obtainable even in our northern 

 localities. Several other species of the genus have 

 been introduced and have fruited here, but their fruits 

 have been of a very inferior qualit}^ 



