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seed. This fruit grows singly on the trailing stems of a small 

 shrub resembling juniper, bearing beautiful scarlet blossoms in 

 autumn. 



Leucopogon lanceolatus, a large bush, with numerous harsh 

 leaves, growing along the sea-shore, with some other smaller 

 inland shrubs of the same tribe, produces very small white 

 berries of a sweetish and rather herby flavour. These are pro- 

 miscuously called white or native currants in the colony. There 

 are in the mountains some dry red-berried shrubs allied to this, 

 the fruit of which may serve to allay hunger, but it is too dis- 

 agreeable to be eaten under other circumstances. 



O'xalis microphylla, yellow-flowered sorrel. This little 

 plant, which displays its lively yellow blossoms on almost every 

 grassy spot in the colony, and has acid leaves, in form resembling 

 the leaves of clover, is very pleasant, eaten raw, to allay thirst ; 

 and made into tarts, it is almost equal to the berberry. 



Casuarina torulosa, the she oak. The young fruit and 

 young shoots afford an agreeable acid by chewing, which allays 

 thirst. 



Leptospermum lanigerum, the hoary tea tree; Acacia decur- 

 rens, the black wattle; Corrae^a alba. Cape Barren tea. The 

 leaves of these have been used as substitutes for tea in the colony, 

 as have also the leaves and bark of Cryptocarya glaucescens, 

 the Australian sassafras. 



I do not think it necessary to enter upon any description of 

 the barilla shrubs (y^'triplex ii/alimus, Rhagodia Billardier/, and 

 Salicornia arbuscula), which, with some others, under the pro- 

 miscuous name of Botany Bay greens, were boiled and eaten 

 along with some species of sea-weed, by the earliest settlers, when 

 in a state of starvation. The thick young shoots of some of the 

 humbler species of Salicornia would, no doubt, like those of the 

 Salicornia annua (glass-wort, or marsh samphire of England), 

 be serviceable for pickling. 



Art. hi. RemarJcs on the Advantages of having a Reserve Garden. 

 By Mr. Robert Errington, 



A RESERVE garden is a department which, in my opinion, is a 

 very necessary appurtenance to every country seat of conse- 

 quence : I can only wish the subject had an abler pen. Never- 

 theless, I am somewhat encouraged to undertake it, not only 

 from your request, but from the circumstance that little has been 

 written on such gardens, at least, as far as I am aware : and this 

 paper, although furnishing nothing particularly new, may, per- 

 haps, draw forth remarks from others of longer experience and 

 more scientific acquirements than myself, who will be able to 

 handle the subject to better purpose. 



