The rare and beautiful flowering shrubs, which abound in every part, deserve the highest admiration and panegyric.
Of the vegetable productions transplanted from other climes, maize flourishes beyond any other grain.

And as it affords a strong and nutritive article of food, its propagation will, I think, altogether supersede that of wheat and barley.
Horticulture has been attended in some places with tolerable success.

At Rose Hill I have seen gardens which, without the assistance of manure, have continued for a short time to produce well grown vegetables.

But at Sydney, without constantly dressing the ground, it was in vain to expect them; and with it a supply of common vegetables might be procured by diligence in all seasons.

Vines of every sort seem to flourish.