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was founded in Singapore in 1859 or 1860. It got hopelessly into 
debt in 1873, and the Government eventually took over its property 
in 1878, and thus was founded the second Botanic Gardens of 
Singapore. 
“The apathy of the Government from 1829 to 1860 naturally 
ended in disaster, which took the form of a ruinous collapse of the 
: erak, Sir Hugh Low took a great interest in agriculture at 
a ae when there was practically no agriculture worthy of the name 
in the Peninsula, and he founded several gardens or experimental 
of them were instituted in about 1875 or 1876. Th ae 
. ey comprise 
Gena pe Re ge a the Tea Gardens and Weal Hill 
» on the Laipin ills the Hermi P Mie 
Waterloo Garden, sua Telok ae eae ul Garden ae 
Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. Stanley Arden was put incharge. Itcon- 
tained only economic plants and was liberally. supplied free with 
pase the Singapore Botanic Gardens and it contained 
pibrg y @ very complete series of plants likely to prove useful to , 
