SELECT PLANTS 



(EXCLUSIVE OF TIMBER 'TEEBS) 







BEADILT ELIGIBLE FOB 



.VICTORIAN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE, 



with indications of their native countries and some of their uses. 



AN ENUMERATION OFFEBED BY 



BAEON FEED. VON MUELLEE, 



C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., C.M.Z.S., F.R.B.S., 



Commander of the Order of St. Jago,, and of the Order of Isabella Cath., 

 Vice-President of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria. 



WHEN offering an Appendix to the Acclimatisation Society's 

 Eeport of last year, in the enumeration of timber trees desirable 

 for a country of our clime, my willingness was expressed to 

 extend the notes, then offered, also to other plants of prominent 

 utilitarian value So considerate was the reception, which the 

 former Appendix experienced, that I am induced already to 

 redeem my promise of extending these data ; and I do this with 

 all the. more readiness, as the rapid progress of tillage almost 

 throughout our Colonial dominion is causing more and more a 

 desire for the general and particular indication of such plants, 

 which a colder clime excludes from the northern countries, where 

 most of us spent our youth. Within the pages, allotted to this 

 communication, the notes offered could only be indicative. 

 Hence this list is merely intended to facilitate the choice of 

 selection. More extensive information must be sought in special 

 works, to which, through the English language, access is given 

 by the literature of Britain and North America. Thus the 



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