1858 plan showing the site of the Gardens and the original vegetation as wattles and rushes. The initial reservation had been just the area to the east of the creek (below the creek in this map), but because the course of the creek had been changed and it was difficult to define the boundary, the western limit was revised to include the area between the creek and the horizontal line shown here. Like many similar early maps, it also shows dotted lines across a meander resulting in an island. Source: DSE Reserve File 4855.