74 FOREST CULTURE AND 
400,000 (35,000,000 francs) ? The time allotted to 
my address is not sufficient to add much to these 
instances. 
On various occasions I drew attention to the likeli- 
hood of Peru-bark plants being eligible for culture in 
the sheltered and warmer parts of our woods, inas- 
much as in brush shades of the Botanic Gardens the 
cinchone endured a temperature two or three degrees 
under the freezing point. Last year Cinchona-plants 
given by me to Mr. G. W. Robinson, of Hillesley, 
near Berwick, for experiment, passed quite well 
through the cool season without any cover. The 
lowest temperature at Harmony Valley, Blackwood 
Gully, in the Dandenong Ranges, observed during 
1866 by Mr. Jabez Richardson, who, on my request, 
kindly undertook the thermometer readings there 
during that year, was still one degree above the freez- 
ing point, while the temperature at the Melbourne 
Observatory sunk to twenty-eight degrees Fahren- 
heit. Let me note, however, that simultaneously frost 
occurred in the open flats of Dandenong ; hence the 
great importance of forest shelter in cases like this. 
East Gipps Land, with its mild temperature, is likely 
to prove the aptest part of the Victorian colony for 
Peru-bark cultivation. Who does not remember the 
deep grief into which a small insular colony sunk 
within the last few years, when its population became 
actually decimated by fever, and when, after one 
hundred and fifty years of existence of that unhappy 
colony, only just the first Cinchonas had been planted. 
In some of the uplands of New South Wales, where 
it was desirable to clear away bush vegetation—such, 
for instance, in which Daviesias, or native hop, pre- 
