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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXIII 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER. 1914. 
No. 10. 
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES 
Mr. James McHutchison Gives His Impressions of This Interesting Country 
S YDNEY, New South Wales, has a population of 
750,000, which makes it the largest city in Aus¬ 
tralia, and the eighth largest in the British Empire. 
The shipping is extensive, about half that of London and 
one-third that of New York. Great ocean liners of many 
nationalities lie at its wharves, and there is wharf ac- 
of our harbor?” Sydney Harbor or Port Jackson, 
justifies its reputation as being one of the world’s finest 
harbors, it is beautiful, picturesque, with sea arms 
branching out from the entrance in all directions, and 
with deep water everywhere. A splendid ferry service 
radiates from the city to suburban harbor points, so 
Farm Cove Botanical Gardens, Sydney 
commodations for all that come. Australian shipping 
laws differ from American in that foreign steamers can 
carry passengers between intermediate Australian ports. 
When one arrives in Los Angeles, one of the first ques¬ 
tions asked is “what do you think of our climate? So 
it is in Sydney, but the question is “what do you think 
most Sydneyites go to their business by ferry. All of 
the deck seats on these ferries are portable, with cork 
underlining, so that if the boat sinks, every seat acts as a 
life raft, and avoids any great loss of life. 
Sydney Harbor can best be described by likening it to 
a tree, the single trunk representing the single narrow 
