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APPENDIX. 



Majesty's Government, for the purpose, should it be deemed expedient, of 

 forming an Experimental Garden at Sydney, to prove their different qualities, 

 and propagate, for general distribution, those which may appear most suitable 

 to the climate. 



" As independently of the above, I have secured a competent quantity of all 

 the most valuable varieties which I found cultivated in the best wine districts 

 of France and Spain, both for wine and raisins, it might at first sight appear 

 superfluous to bestow attention on a collection which must include many of a 

 very inferior description ; but it is, perhaps, the most remarkable fact connected 

 with the culture of the vine, that even a slight change of climate or soil pro- 

 duces a most material change in the qualities of its produce ; and for this 

 reason the best varieties of France and Spain may prove (as several of them 

 have already proved) of no value in New South Wales, while, on the other 

 hand, the most indifferent kinds may produce in that climate the most valuable 

 \vines. 



For this reason I am of opinion that the establishment of an Experimental 

 Garden at Sydney could not fail to be of the highest value to the Colonies of 

 New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and subsequently to that of the 

 Cape of Good Hope also ; while at the same time, being placed under the care 

 of the superintendent of the Government Garden, adjoining which there is 

 abundance of vacant gi'ound, it would add little to the present expense of that 

 establishment. 



" It is my intention also to place a part of the collection I have made in the 

 different parts of France and Spain, which I have visited, in the Public Garden, 

 to be propagated for general distribution. I trust I may, therefore, be excused 

 for requesting that your Lordship will give orders that the cases containing 

 these plants (those from France being now in London, and those from Spain 

 being expected by the first arrivals from Cadiz and Malaga) may be received 

 on board any of the convict ships about to sail, in order to secure their early 

 and safe arrival in the Colony. 



" I have the honour to be. 

 My Lord. 



" Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant, 



"JAMES BUSBY." 



" The Right Honourable Lord Goderich, ^ 

 His Majesty's Principal Secretary V 

 of State for the Colonies, ^c. <|-c. ^c." ) 



The accommodation I requested having been immedi- 

 ately ordered, I set about having the plants transferred 

 to more substantial packages, and packed in sand and 

 earth, in order to enable them to sustain the vegetation 

 which would result from the hot weather in passing the 



