248 J. H. MAIDEN. 
Meeting of 2nd February, 1858. 1. Transactions at p. 
184. Reports re the proposed ‘* Model Farm and Garden”’ 
in the Government Domain at Parramatta will be found at 
pages 184 and 218. At p. 244 it was stated that the 
Government had ‘set aside’’ 200 acres of the Domain for 
the “‘ Horticultural Society’s Model Farm.”’ 
2. ““Native Plants’’ No. 3, T. W. Shepherd, p. 185. No. 
4 of the same series will be found at p. 186. (The sub-title 
is “‘and the pastoral, agricultural and _ horticultural 
resources of Australia.’’) 
3. ““The Potato; its culture, disease and preventive,”’ 
by Lewis Markhan, p. 189. 
4. “‘Naming or numbering plants.’”’ (The making of 
tallies), by P. L. C. Shepherd, p. 187. 
The Transactions of the Council Meeting of 24th February 
1858 are reported at p. 218. There is an account, includ- 
ing the prize-list of the Autumn Exhibition of the Society 
. in the Botanic Gardens on (Thursday and Friday) 25th and 
26th February. I have an official letter from H. R. Webb, 
Assistant Secretary, at the offices of the Society, 63 Hunter 
Street, asking permission to hold this exhibition. 
In “Hort. Mag.’ vir, 151, in an historical sketch, this 
Show is again loosely referred to as of the “‘Australian 
Improvement Society,’’ and the statement is made that 
this is the last Show prior to the establishment of the 
“* Horticultural Society of Sydney.”’ The paper was written 
in 1870 by the late Mr. Luke Wooff, and contains other 
useful historical notes pertaining to horticulture in Sydney. 
Resuming our reference to the ‘“‘Sydney Magazine of 
Science and Art,’’ we have:— 
2nd March, 1858. Transactions at p. 217. 1. Paper on 
Clianthus Dampieri, by P. L. O. Shepherd, p. 229. 2. ‘‘On 
bone manure and superphosphate of lime,’’ by Henry 
Waymouth, p. 230. | 
