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travellers, visitors, ships' officers, &c., all plants that 

 it may be desirable to introduce, whether for use or 

 ornament, and botanical information generally. 



II. The gardens should be both useful and attrac- 

 tive to the general public, and should contain — 



(«.) A conspicuously ticketed collection of the 

 plants, shrubs, and trees of the Colony. 



{Jj^ A collection, also well ticketed, of all such 

 useful plants as can be cultivated in the Colony. 



(f.) A collection of useful and ornamental plants 

 for distribution, exchange, &c. 



III. The Superintendent should keep a catalogue of 

 all the plants cultivated and that have been cultivated 

 in the garden ; a monthly journal of operations, which 

 may be consulted by persons desirous of forming 

 gardens, and a brief meteorological abstract of the 

 mean maximum and mean minimum temperature of 

 the month, with its humidity, clearness, or cloudiness, 

 amount of rain, &c. He should annually prepare a 

 report on the progress and condition of the garden, of 

 its receipts and expenditure, donation's,'donors' names, 

 and those of the more important plants distributed from 

 it ; this report should be printed by the Government. 



It is also desirable that the Superintendent should 

 keep an arranged and named Herbarium of the 

 flowering plants and ferns of the Colony ; and a 

 public museum containing named specimens of the 

 Colonial woods and other useful vegetable products 

 should be attached to every garden. 



