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tropics*. By the invitation of Mr. Richard Cunningham, 

 tlien of the Royal Gardens of Kew, and since, fortunately 

 for the Colony, appointed Colonial Botanist of New 

 South Wales, I transferred the cases to Kew, where 

 Mr. Cunningham himself superintended their packing, 

 and I feel persuaded that to his care I am, in a great 

 measure, indebted for the excellent condition in which 

 they arrived at Sydney. Mr. Cunningham also found the 

 cuttings sufficiently long to affi^rd a short cutting from 

 each. These he took the trouble to plant out in open 

 boxes, and before leaving England he had shipped them 

 on board the Camden convict ship for Sydney, in such 

 excellent condition, that he expresses himself as having no 

 doubt of their safe arrival ; and he is also confident that 

 the deficiencies in the first importation may be made 

 good from them. Should Mr. Cunningham's anticipations 

 in this respect be realised, I will have the satisfaction of 

 having transferred to the Colony, without any expense to 

 the public, and almost in a complete state, a national 

 collection of vines, which it was for three-quarters of a 

 century the favourite project of writers on Agriculture, 

 and Agricultural Societies in France, to collect, and which 

 was at length accomplished at a very considerable expense 

 to the country, by the Count de Chap.tal, when Minister 

 of the Interior under Buonaparte. 



My worthy friends in Malaga and Xeres de la Fron- 

 tera, did not neglect the commissions they had undertaken. 



* I beg here to mention, that I communicated to several of the most eminent 

 Horticulturists and Botanists, in London and Edinburgh, Messrs, Audibert's 

 plan of pacliing plants in cases lined with oiled paper (see page 75), to all of 

 whom the plan was entirely new, and all of whom acknowledged it to be a 

 valuable communication. The success which attended it in the case of these 

 vine cuttings is decisive in its favour. 



