190 REPORT OF THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT BOTANIST. 
lected ground, often manifest themselves by the widely visible dead 
ramifieations of the trees, causes here much loss of labour. "The anni- 
hilation of the trophy guns throughout Britain suggests the propriety 
Garden. The spot allotted to them might far more pleasingly be 
occupied by a small ornamental building, in which the native birds, 
which, permanently or migratively, are inmates of the Garden area (ap- 
proximately 140 species), could be illustrated by single museum speci- 
mens, to satisfy constant inquiry in reference to the scientific names of 
the species. The lake is often swarming with water-birds, the tame 
swans, pelicans, ducks, ete., acting as decoy birds. Thrushes teem in 
the shrubberies. To the aviary, donations of parrots, cockatoos, and 
other showy native birds, not formerly kept, would add much interest. 
The formation of an outdoor fresh-water tank, for the culture of hardy 
aquatics, which in the lake generally succumb under the prey of water- 
birds, is highly recommendable. The introduction and multiplication 
of important plants, of industrial or medicinal value, has received care- 
ful attention. Thus about 10,000 young Peru bark plants have Been 
raised, comprising mainly Cinchona succirubra, C. Calisaya, and C. 
officinalis, the latter, the most hardy of all, predominating. 
These plants have withstood the night frosts, which we experience 
near Melbourne, when merely placed in brush shades. On one occa- 
sion the thermometer in these shades sank to 28? F., while in the open 
ground it stood at 24? F. near the surface; still the plants suffered 
no further than getting some of the leaves and youngest branches in- 
jured, but soon formed new leaf-buds. These frosts affect, moreover, 
also some of the plants which inhabit the mild sheltered glens of our 
ranges, and I am therefore justified in anticipating that, in many of 
the warmer forest regions of Victoria, the Cinchone could be grown to 
advantage, these plants being consociated with Fern-trees in their 
native haunts in the middle regions of the Andes. Coffee plants 
scarcely suffered in the brush shades, in which the temperature may be 
regarded almost analogous to that of our Fern-tree gullies. It would 
be very important to ascertain, by actual test in the ranges, whether 
the Coffee and Cinchone would yield prolifically. In such localities, 
under any circumstances, the Tea-shrub would so luxuriate as to pro- 
duce an abundant crop of leaves, since even in dry localities of the 
Botanie Garden, and in its poor soil, the Tea-bushes have grown quite 
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