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suitable office building wherein he could house a Herbarium and 

 a library. Then he named the staff required, and the alterations 

 necessary in the Gardens to bring things into order, including the 

 adequate labelling* of the collections over which Murton had com- 

 plained of considerable difficulty, and for the effective policing of 

 the grounds by day and by night. 



Cantley was a great advocate of order. The arboretum he 

 planted in botanical sequence on the system ot Bentham and 

 Hooker with one end at the Chmy Road entrance to the Economic 

 Garden and carrying the series eastwards. He had made in 1883- 

 85 from near the foot of the Lake to the Tyersall Gate a series of 

 flower hedsl whereby the visitor was introduced to this system in 

 ornamental plants ; but the impossibility of filling the beds with 

 plants suited to the climate broke his scheme down. Thirdly when 

 Murton's palm collection wanted replanting, he proposed to arrange 

 it according to the " Genera Plantarum." What Cantley meant in 

 1882 by saying that the Singapore Gardens had never been a 

 " Botanical Garden," was that this botanical orderliness which 

 so appealed to him was not present, nor the plants labelled. He 

 had extensive flower beds on the Lower terrace of the Bandstand 

 Hill, which held no less than 20,000 plants ; and in 1886 made more 

 at the Main Gate. In administration this love of order did much 

 for the Gardens; for instance, Murton had left cooly lines in 

 three places, and Mr. Fox had complained that numbers of men 

 were continually walking about at night who when questioned 

 always had the excuse that they were proceeding from the one set 

 of lines to see their friends in another, and that this conduced to 

 thefts: Cantley concentrated the eoolies in his new propagating 

 yard partly in new buildings, and partly in buildings left by Murton. 

 CapeFs house because the clerk's house. To a place near to the 

 Propagating yard he took the Plant Houses : and to a place near 

 enough also and furthermore conveniently reached by visitors he 

 took the Gardens office. Putting forward the need of a building 

 in whicli Flower shows could be held he induced the Government 

 to build in 1882 between the office and the Propagating yard the 

 Large Plant House : and it has been used again and again for that 

 purpose, the collection of pot plants within it being removed 

 temporarily. 



The Zoo he concentrated in 1885 at the Monkey House, erect- 

 ing new aviaries like l)rackets on either side of it: and encircling 

 these again for shelter with trees and shrubs. 



Thus Cantley cleared the Bandstand Hill of all buildings; 

 for the office was no longer wanted, nor the little very unsuitable 

 orchid house, nor the cooly lines ; and a Eosary was made where they 

 had been : the Aviary also disappeared from the lower terrace. The 

 Eosary beds were just as the beds containing Cannas are now. 



"Murton's labels had been painted by convicts in the jail 

 J There is preserved in the Hublic Works Office a :ground plan with levels 

 showing the Main Lawn covered with flower beds and the curves of the paths 

 to the old Monkey House altered. This plan, which is undated, appears to 

 have been connected with Cantley's desire to maintain a co'lection of bedded 

 plants illustrating Systematic Botany. 



