POSTSCRIPT. 



In submitting this volume, the writer should feel particularly 

 beholden to recipients, if they would furnish him with such addi- 

 tional reliable notes, as might suggest themselves during the use 

 of this work, and as would be deserving of insertion in a book like 

 this within its own scope. This request is made without reluctance, 

 because the author does not derive any monetary profit from this 

 volume, and also because the fulfilment of the wishes now expressed 

 can involve nowhere much trouble and expense. Moreover, in here 

 treating prominently utilitarian plants of our whole planet, except those 

 of the hottest zone, it needs much aid of locally experienced col- 

 laborators in all different regions, if such a publication is to be brought 

 to perfection, and to be maintained in such. While reaching the eighth 

 decade of his life, the author cannot hope, to see many more editions of 

 this work, brought up to the newest standard, through the press him- 

 self ; but as he may perhaps still be able to publish one more edition 

 before passing away, he is now particularly eager, that the next issue 

 should by some special efforts be rendered as complete, as this within 

 the knowledge of the present days can be possible. Such help further- 

 more would really be a recompense only from those who, in using this 

 book, derived some practical rural benefit or instructive advantages 

 from its pages. 



MELBOURNE, August, 1895. 



