604 FOREST CULTURE AND 
legions of ornamental or industrial plants may have 
found their way from a botanic garden, directly or 
indirectly, into numerous cultural spots, and may 
largely contribute to grace already even many ex- 
tensive parks; yet after all the extreme efforts of 
sedulous skill, and after an institution may have lay- 
vished its treasures with unbounded generosity, it 
still may find itself forsaken even by those on whom 
it had most claims. Here is before you the noble 
Dye Pine of Nepaul (Pinus Webbiana). It fell to my 
lot to raise it in Australia first of all in masses, more 
than 20,000 seedlings having been reared in my nur- 
series two years ago. But the growth of this noble 
Spruce is slow. It requires three or four years before 
a seedling is strong enough to be trusted out. For all» 
the patient care thus bestowed, and for all the fore- 
sight thus displayed, there can only be results after 
rather a long while, especially if even the facilities for 
culture are locally much impaired. Moreover, it is 
in the forest-lands only where numerous plants, which 
I have introduced, can attain to perfection. It would, 
for instance, be hopeless to attempt growing the Amer- 
ican Cranberries, Huckleberries, or Blueberries, or the 
English Whortleberry, in the Melbourne garden, with 
a prospect of a copious yield of fruit. In our alps we 
have extensive sphagneta for many of these kinds of 
plant, but scarcely an edible fruit of any kind grows nat- 
urally on our snowy mountains. In Germany and some 
North European countries Bleeberries are brought as 
extensively to market as Strawberries. The Hon- 
orable the Commissioner of Agriculture for the United 
States, General Horace Capron, states, in his report 
for the year 1869, that the culture of the American 
