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“ Mr. Arden left about 1906, and the garden seems to have been 
practically abandoned shortly afterwards, but we understand that 
the camphor bushes and rubber trees are still being protected. 
“The Federated Malay States Agricultural Department com- 
menced to open out a considerable area of ground for planting rubber 
and camphor trees, near Kuala Lumpur, in 1906, and this work 
appears to be progressing. 
«Thu have the history of the Botanic Gardens of the Malay 
Peninsula as follows :— 
(Founded) (Abolished) 
First Penang Garden 1800 1805 
Second Penang Garden 1822 1826 
First Singapore Garden 1823 1829 
Second Singapore Garden 1878 still existing 
Third Penang Garden 1884 1910 
Malacca Garden 8 1894 
Kuala Kangsar Garden 1876 before 1888 
Maxwell’s Hill, Tea Gardens 1882 es 
Hermitage Hill before 1880 1893 
Waterloo Hill ae & before 1888 
Durian Sabatang i es” = 
or Telok Anson 
First Select Garden 9 1906 
Kuala Lumpur Experiment Plots 1906 existing 
* This does not include such smaller nurseries as the hill experi- 
mental garden at Penang, the Kubang Ulu Nursery, the Damansara 
road nursery, Kuala Lumpur, also mostly abandoned, nor the various 
bungalow gardens and parks kept up by the Government such as 
the Lake Club Gardens, at Kuala Lumpur, the Taiping Gardens, 
Reservoir Gardens, etc., which cannot be classed as Botanic Gardens 
in any sense of the word. 
“J have no clue as to the exact dates of any of these gardens. 
recon some of our readers may be able to give more of their 
istory. 
“The table above shows that no less than 14 Botanic Gardens 
and stations have been founded in the Malay Peninsula in little 
more than a century and of these 11 have been abolished, after a life 
of from four to fourteen years. 
“ The Gardens which have existed longest are the Botanic Gardens 
of Singapore, 32 years, and the next oldest are the Penang Gardens 
now abolished. The remainder from about four to eight years. 
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