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 Plantains, anaia Pine sumens and fruit trees in great variety 
were thus plentifu ally disseminate 
as the Cocoa N ut, Mim ‘alinbat complete fai lur 
inchona, as represented by various species, "and almost every 
known plant. yielding rubber or gutta-pe ar oo been tried 
for which even the climate of this Colony may not be a 
The Botanie Garden at Durban is on the lower dye ot the 
Berea. The lowest portion of the ground is com 
sand, impregnated with traces of undecayed mould, derived from 
the disintegration of various species of rush, dwarf Cyperus, and 
which Durban stands at an average level, above the sea, of about 
90 feet, With the ascent of the Berea to the uttermost limits 
eg so that only trees of vigorous growth, and far se ing 
8, continue to thrive in it, and being very loose, open, and 
wah t clay, the effects of manure soon pass off. I make these 
observations in extenuation of s little success that has attended 
the sirenuous efforts of the various Curators, who were placed in 
the Garden under the control of is Trustees. The reports sent in, 
w 
any i 
there were losses owing to the tentative or angie e nature of 
the Curator’s work. But these very losses were not out 
profit, for the reason that the public were thus prevented ren 
away any of their efforts in the same direction. 
In the endeavour to show what has been done in South Africa, 
ing dich raisti ex a oa years the gro 
thes exotics became a prominent feature in the Colony. Every 
! had its plantation, which embraced numerons speoies of 
