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giving an annual supply of a few tree Sects. It has been Kod ue the 
publie since 1885, when the obnoxious sunk road was filled up with soil 
removed in VA og the site of the Parliament House Gardens, and a 
e 
e d bring 
it into riko like order, would have absorbed the whole Gover i 
annual subsidy, and required be ee labour gang and police supervision. ^| 
It was therefore left severely alone. 


uch of the present dodtanol of the gardeus is due to Mr.  - 
M*Gibbon's labour. He raised great numbers of Australian shrubs and ^. 
trees from seeds obtained from Sir Ferd. V. Mueller, and planted them, 
if anything too thickly in the previously bare grounds of t ard 
To his industry enterprise evidence is giv an extensive list of : 
species under cultivation, published by him in 1858, a 
contributions t ocal papers upon the seasonal operations of 
ard is resignation, Professor MacOwan, r 
many years been the friend and correspondent of Harvey and Sonder, 
was appointed by the Commissioners in 1880, in ji hoo; of iss the 
garden to a fitting status among botanical establishments 
herbarium of Ze eyher, after mre in the possession of Dr. Pa ppt! 
till dee had been purchased by the Government, and a portion of Ed 
o by Dr. "n about the year 1864. The charge of thi 
colton which had lain perdu ever since its return from rere 
rary possession was added to the cama of the new director. 
The. id defect of the institution, however, was e utterly insufficient - 

