AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 



OF THE 



STRAITS 



AND 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



Annual Report of the Botanic Gardens, 

 Singapore and Pcnang, 

 for the Year 1906. 



Staff. 



i.— There was no change in the Staff during the year, except 

 that an apprentice Sub-Overseer, by name of Silvester Paul, was 

 taken on in May. The Superintendent of Penang went on sick 

 leave for a year, in March, and it was suggested that the Assistant 

 Superintendent of the Singapore Gardens should take his place 

 during his absence as has had to be the system previously, but, in 

 view of the Agricultural Exhibition in August, and the heavy 

 increase of work of the department due to the rapid development 

 of the agriculture of the Peninsula of late years, it was found 

 impracticable to reduce the staff to the Director only, so that 

 Mr. Peel (Ag. Collector of Land Revenue) superintended the . 

 work of the Penan<* Gardens. The Clerk of the Department, 

 Mr. J. S. Isaac, and the Artist, Mr. C. De Alwis, were on leave 

 for three months each during the year. The coolies were as poor 

 a Jot as ever, the demand for labour on estates at higher wages 

 than is allowed for the Botanic Gardens made it impossible to 

 secure men other than sickly and worn-out labourers rejected by 



«** in a morn r ing,\ r fme n during the' year to consult the Rector, 

 cniefly on the subject of rubber planting. The opening up of the 

 F ederated Malay States due to the immense development of 

 rubber cultivation, has immensely increased the number of visitors 



