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of the past few years certain trees have grown too large and 
prevented others of greater interest from developing properly, 
while near the river certain trees and shrubs will have to be 
removed in order to obtain the full value of the river, but these 
are matters of detail which need not be elaborated here. 
s in other Tropical Botanic Gardens, the trees and shrubs 
are mainly exotic species. Many of them are of considerable 
economic value and others are of more purely scientific or 
esthetic interest. It was disappointing to find that the native 
Cameroons vegetation was almost unrepresented, and the same 
remark applies, as regards the Nigerian flora, to the Gardens at 
Calabar and to Moor Plantation, Ibadan 
Several varieties of the Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis), including 
the Lissombe were very rightly to be found under cultivation 
at Victoria, but many native plants of great beauty and possible 
economic value were unrepresented. 
In the Garden proper certain areas were devoted to examples 
of such plants as Cacao, Hevea brasiliensis, Oil Palms, Citrus, 
Mangos, Nutmegs, Teak trees, Haematoxylon, paige M ichelia 
Champaca,* and other economic trees and s 
To the East of the river large plots were ‘tienda with 
plantations of Pine apples in variety, Cacao, Funtumia, Ficus, 
Hevea, Raphia, Kola, Teak, Coffees, Bananas, Oranges, &e., 
which are indicated generally in the map. 
To the West of the river there is a good collection of exotic 
Palms and some magnificent Cycads, and all the more important 
paths are planted with avenues of introduced trees or Palms 
such as Michelia Champaca, ee inophyllum, Terminalia 
Catappa, Martenezia, Areca, 
The Garden is well Hea with useful buildings in which 
research work and the teaching of agricultural pupils was carried 
on. The buildings located in different parts of the Garden, 
which are numbered in the map, are— 
(1) The Agricultural School—now the Garden office— 
consisting of two rooms below where instruction was given 
to the first and second year pupils, and rooms above 
where the boys were housed. These upper rooms are now 
occupied by the Garden’s Foreman. 
(2) A small Cacao-drying shed used for Demonstration 
purposes close to the school buildings. 
(3) The Herbarium and Museum consisting of three 
ood rooms with living rooms above. The contents of the 
Herbarium have been removed, though a few of the tin 
cases contain sheets of plants, badly eaten by insects, and 
a few specimens of little value still remain in the Museum 
cases. 
Deistel, H. ‘“* Tropischer se sapgaear Aes Deutsche Tropen- 
* See i 
“4 4: ._ 1. Hamburg. Plate facing p. 
Biphoeek oe Plate Rte facing p. 16. All the Plates in this work ars 
from photographs taken in the Victoria Gardens 
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