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which constitutes one of the earliest floras based on the Linnean 
system and written by Linnaeus him 
This was followed later by Thwaites’ work and Trimen’s 
“” Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon,’ which enabled Ceylon to 
possess at the close of the last century a more complete know- 
ledge of its flora than any other tropical country. Later workers 
were able to avail themselves of the laboratory and quarters 
specially constructed for the use of visitors, amongst whom are 
many names well known in the botanical world 
The section on ‘‘ Economic Botany and Agriculture ”’ treats 
with the experiments of such economic crops as coffee, which as 
an industry was ruined by Hemileia in 1880—cinchona, cocoa, 
tea, rubber, spices, camphor, and most recently sisal and oil 
alm. The success attendant on the introduction and acclimatisa- 
tion of these plants as established in Ceylon is traced individually. 
The last section deals with the latest phase in the development 
of a Department of Agriculture from the original Botanic Gardens, 
and concludes with a complete list of Staff Officers associated 
with Peradeniya since its commencement. 
The history of the development of the Gardens traced in this 
interesting review gives an excellent idea of the establishment 
and shows clearly the value of a Botanic Garden. This record of 
one of the Empire’s most famous Botanic Gardens may well be 
summed up in the concluding words of the authors, ‘‘ Paradeniya 
may look _ to its past with pride and forward to its future 
with confiden 
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