THE ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBERS 
Thirty-six years ago, Mr. Guilfoyle brought to Victoria the 
very genius of landscape gardening, and a fulness of knowledge 
concerning botany and the habits and adaptability of plants and 
trees that cannot be excelled. He brought, also, and has ever 
retained, a courtesy and generous kindness which have failed 
no one, and have made many of us greatly his debtors. He 
has left our Botanic Gardens a place of the most animated and 
impressive beauty, as well as a living school of profit and 
delight to all who visit it. 
Mr. Guilfoyle has, moreover, found time to place on record 
his valuable experience, the result of his varied observation and 
wide information. We have now prevailed upon him to allow 
us the privilege of being participators in the publication of this 
book, thus securing to an interested public its invaluable aid as 
a standing work of reference. 
For the Citizens’ Committee, 
JAMES W. BARRETT, 
Hon. Secretary. 
