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naturalized, lavishing their gay and brilliant blossoms for the adornment of our 
gardens, gratifying by their display of bright colours, as well as by the diffusion 
of their fragrance. Well may Australia be distinguished as a land of fragrant 
flowers and delicious fruits, for by acclimatization they are produced in great 
abundance." 
The Society will have not only to add to this long list, but also take 
care that what is already introduced shall not be lost. That there are 
members fully alive to the importance of this part of the Society’s 
duty we learn with pleasure. At the last anniversary meeting Mr. 
Moore, the zealous Director of the Botanic and Zoological Gardens 
at Sydney, took upon himself the part of the warning Cassandra :— 
ht presumpt in him to say a 
few words bearing on a point that had been referred to by Dr. Bennett; it 
was that of the disease that had visited the wheat crop in this colony. 
struck him—though he confessed he had no proof of the fact—that the wheat 
had become deteriorated and impoverished in character, and that thus it had 
which might be similarly deteriorated, to sow with seed obtained from a colder 
country. It was well known to every one engaged in the cultivation of plants, 
that plants or even fruit-trees brought to a warm country from a cold country 
were of a much hardier character than those brought from a warm to a cold 
country. It would be well, therefore, for the farmers to obtain fresh seed from 
Tasmania or New Zealand, or much better still, from Europe. It would also 
be well for them to introduce the Polish and the mummy wheat. They must 
profitably in this country, but which were seldom or never thought of. There 
was, for instance, the Olive, which he was satisfied would succeed admirably on 
the northern shore. H tioned this subject more particularly n he was 
aware that Mr. Baptist had introduced from the continent of Europe, and was 
now growing, some of the best kinds of Olive. Reference had been made to 
silk, but it was almost useless for him to observe that the plant required for the 
silkworm was most easily grown in the colony. He regretted that more advan- 
tage had not been taken of the quantity of seed that had been obtained from 
the South of Europe.” 
The Society has recently done a wise thing in agreeing to admit 
ladies to the right of membership. We believe the Botanical Society 
of Canada was the first which showed the way in this direction, and 
we have seldom read a more practical report than the first furnished by 
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