 He built a small cottage in the garden and established the Edge Hill Nursery, constructing a long shed roofed with coarse canvas in which he raised seedlings and cuttings and in 1887 cut a main garden path, about wide, through the reserve at his own expense, planting specimen and fruit trees along its length.In 1891 this pathway was surveyed as Edge Hill Road (Collins Avenue from 1934).He also formed other paths opening off this track, including a circular walking track through the rainforest.