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In the first place it will be useful to consider the objects to be obtained by establishing such a garden and in the second the prospects of achieving what is foreshadowed and desired. In colonies which possess large

areas of good but uncultivated land, and with sufficient labour. great variety of plants may be intro- duced and made profitable use of but in countries with ancient systemo

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of agriculture which have already, absorbed all land of any value the case is different and an economic garden in such a place would have restricted scope of work and require greater care in the selection of the fewer trial plants which may be of service. The New Territory is of the latter description and there is no land of agricultural value which has not for generations been under careful cultivation with the exception

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