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turnips, cabbage, beans, carrots, barley, rye, oats, fowls, eggs and 
much other food is concerned, that can be raised even in coldest 
climes. 
He directed attention finally to the facilities, with which water, 
without expenditure by mere gravitation was obtainable from the 
Alps, and how by diverting water of the rivulets or by slightly 
tapping natural reservoirs or reaches, new flow for irrigation 
could be secured,—mitigating thus by the least exertion and out- 
lay the dangers of floods in the lowlands, and pointing out, that 
in the cooler regions also the invasion of all kinds of horticultural 
crops was least to be feared through destructive fungs and insects. 
In conclusion Baron von Mueller congratulated the students on 
the splendid prospects before them, which circumspectness and 
experience of the rulers of the land had opened up; and he felt 
‘sure, that they would derive therefrom all the anticipated benefits 
in their own practical life, and would bave cause ever to be grate- 
ful for the boons offered to them by this first Horticultural 
‘College established in the great Austral Land ! 
