No. 199.] 477 



Translated from the Revue Horticole, Paris, 1849. By 11. Meigs. 



Progress of Horticulture in southei-n Australia. — Some of our 

 readers may doubtless remember that we have, for some time past, 

 entertained them with the singular production of that region, which 

 seem to form an exception to all other countries by its unique pro- 

 ducts. Not only are the plants, animals and all brute creation, diflfer- 

 ent from those of other parts of the globe, but the climate also — all 

 form anomalies in the midst of creation. It has hitherto belonged to 

 the English, and in all probability it will be their part to people this 

 new world, bring it into cultivation, cover it with flourishing towTis 

 and cities, where will be displayed all the most refined civilization of 

 Europe, a glorious* part which England alone knows how-to play, one 

 which ought to secure in the approaching future to her bold and in- 

 dustrious children, the preponderance in numbers over all the race of 

 men on the globe. The day will come when the people of British 

 origin will form a girdle about the globe, interrupted only by the 

 ocean. We foresee when the epoch is coming in which the immense 

 solitudes of North America, will be covered with villages and cities, 

 whose people will speak the English language. In less than one 

 century probably the Cape Colony will in succession invade and 

 occupy the whole extra tropical part of southern Africa, and who knows 

 that the languge of old England will be prevailing, (in less time) in 

 the Australian continent, in Tasmania, New Zealand, and some of the 

 great islands of Polynesia. We freemen are playing a very different 

 part. Now ought we to feel humble in our national self-love, when 

 we see that rival people pacific^^lly invading the globe, while we 

 revolutionise a little by internal political commotions, but never colonise? 

 And of late years we perpetually debate about the keeping of 

 Algeria, make a flood of pamphlets on that topic. 



The British Colony Adelaide, is situated upon the southern shore of 

 Australia, in about 35° of south latitude and 136° east longitude, in 

 a climate like that of the south of Europe, as well as the northern 

 edge of Algeria. For, in the southern hemisphere we find, in like 

 latitudes, somewhat less heat than in the north, and where the western 

 portions generally enjoy a milder temperature than in the eastern. 



