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tall 1834, when Governor Murchison who took no interest in gardens 
or agriculture sold them for 1,250 rupees because his wife could not 
get enough vegetables from them to diminish a cost of her cook’s 
bills, and so ended the second Penang Garden 
ere were no other gardens in Penang till 1884, nor do we hear 
of any attempts on the part of the Government to improve cultiva- 
tion or develop agriculture in the meantime. 
* On the founding of Singapore, Sir Stamford Rafiles introduced 
nutmegs, cloves, and cocoa, and founded the first Botanic Gardens 
there in 1822. He writes to Marsden, J anuary 31, 1823. ‘I am 
laying out a Botanic and Experimental Garden’ and to Dr. Wallich, 
February 8 : ‘The Botanic Garden goes on well. I am now em- 
ployed in laying out the walks and stones are collected to make a 
handsome hand railway round it’ (Memoirs, by his Widow, pp. 535, 
537). A superintendent of the name of Dunn was employed to look 
after it, as early as 1819. Dr. Wallich though no doubt muc ch 
interested in the garden was not, as Buckley in his anecdotal history 
‘He had come down from Calcutta 
fr his health in 1822 and returned in 1823, The gardens were on 
e North East of the Government house (Fort Canning) and were 
me acres in extent and a bungalow for the Superintendent was built 
in them. Sir Stamford Raffles left the East in 1823; a monthly 
vote of 60 dollars was allowed for the upkeep. 
“In 1829 the establishment was discontinued and 10 convicts 
had come as Governor-General. In 1827 Dr. Montgomerie who 
took much interest in agriculture and horticulture was superintend- 
ing the gardens, and cultivating spices and endeavouring to induce 
planters to take them up as there was a good demand for them and 
Penang could not supply sufficient. 
ae petition ‘the Government to encourage ene This does 
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“The same year that the Seieasbte : Hortioul tural Society 
was founded a similar one was formed in Ags » but ipso died 
in the same year, viz., in 1846. Three years after, Dr. iieal Boog? 
the leading spirit, left Singapore. Another Hort : 
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