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by letters X. K. & A. The areas K. and A. in the map were those 

 ■which were put at the service of the Agri-Horticultural Society in 

 1859; the area JST. was added in 1866. The chief part of the area 

 of the Garden is seen to be made up of K, which had been granted 

 by the administration in 1852 to one William Graham Kerr. 



On the east of this Kerr property was property granted by the 

 administration to one Gilbert Angus in 1848, and on its west pro- 

 perty granted similarly in 1853 to one William iSTapier. AVhen the 

 Cluny road, now a Garden boundary, came to be constructed, it cut 

 through a part of the Angus property, and a part of the Kerr pro- 

 perty ; the edge of the Angus property, marked A on the map, passed 

 into the same owmership as the Kerr property, while the part of the 

 Kerr property cut off (K2) passed away from the ownership. 

 Again later when the Garden Eoad came to be made in 1866, it 

 cut a strip off the property of the Xapier grant which the adminis- 

 tration acquired from Adam Wilson who had bought it from 

 Whampoa and lie from Xapier, and this strip marked X. on the 

 map, was attached to the land in the hands of the Agri-Horticul- 

 tural Society. The records show that these lands had changed 

 hands several times within the few years from the original grant- 

 ing; and as we know that in the middle and later part of the 

 fifties, speculation in property about Tanglin was considerable 

 — such landed property as was suitable for country houses, — it is 

 fairly evident that the owners were not in the course of farm- 

 ing what they had come by, but were holding it up for sucli an 



