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12 months after the founding of the Gardens. They were presented 

 by Dr. Schomburg of Adelaide and consisted of packets of seed of 

 the following varieties: — E. alpina; E. amygdalina ; E. cnlophylla ; 

 E. coriacea ; E. empetrifolia ; E. ficifolia ; E. globulus ; E. Lehmanni ; 

 E. marginata; E. oblique; E. piperita; E. unifera and an unnamed 

 species from Tasmania. 



Seed of E. tereticoniis\\ere received in June, 1 8/6, from the Botanic 

 Gardens of Re khampton and at the same time plants were received 

 of £. eugenoides from the same Gardens. In addition to the already 

 mentioned varieties, the following were received from time to time : — 

 E. citriodora. goniocalyx, rostrata, siderophloia and viminalis from the 

 Gardens, Brisbane in July, 1877. E. Baileyii from the Queensland 

 Arboricultural Society in 1878; plants of E. longifolia and cornuta in 

 1878. from the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane ; E. callosa, haematostomar 

 pilularis and paniculata, from the Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, in 1879 

 and so on, practically every year, in ever increasing variety down to the 

 present year. (I have enumerated a few of the many varieties received 

 in order that there may be no doubt about all or nearly all the 

 varieties, which had any likelihood of success in this climate, being 

 tried.) 



It would seem quite permissable therefore, to imagine that there 

 ought to be a considerable number of large trees in the Gardens at 

 the present time, but such is indeed far from being the case. Out of 

 the many hundreds of packets of seed which must have been pre- 

 sented to the Gardens during their existence, only one specimen of 

 any dimension is to be found in the Upper Garden i.e., E. intermedia.!^ 

 was planted on rising ground adjacent to the bandstand. It is now 

 a tree of about sixty feet tall and has a circumference of six feet at a 

 distance of three feet from the ground. 



The situation must be described as being dry and favourable to 

 the growth of plants requiring such an one (I have been unable to 

 trace "intermedia" in any of the treatises on the genus but as this 

 tree has lately flowered, specimens have been prepared .in order that 

 the correct determination may be arrived at). 



In -the Economic Garden, eleven treas are to be found. Seven of 

 those were planted adjacent to Bukit Timah Road. It is probably well 

 known that this land is frequently covered with water and at no 

 time is the water deeper than about eighteen inches from the surface. 

 The trees do not look healthy and all that can be said of them is that 

 they have merely existed. They are about forty feet in height un- 

 branched and with extremely few leaves on the crowns. 



The other four were planted adjacent to the Subordinates Quarters 

 i.e. on rising ground. They are practically in asimilarstate to the other 

 seven and all are slowly dying. No particulars can be obtained as to 

 when those II trees were planted nor have I been able to identify 

 them (specimens have also been prepared for identification). 



