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After Sir Hugh Low retired from the Peninsula these were all 

 abandoned or sold or remained as gardens attached to various 

 bungalows or Government residences. In any cases, they lost the 

 status intended and established by him. 



In 1903 an economic garden was started at Batu Tiga near 

 Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. Stanley Arden was put in charge. It con- 

 tained only economic plants and was liberally supplied free with 

 these from the Singapore Botanic Gardens and it contained eventually 

 a very complete series of plants likely to prove useful to planters. 



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. 



Thus we 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 1886 1894 



Kuala Kangsar Garden 1876 before 1888 



Maxwell's Hill, Tea Gardens 1882 

 Hermitage Hill before 1880 1898 



Waterloo Hill „ before 1888 



Durian Sabatang „ „ 



or Telok Anson 



First Selangor Garden 1903 1906 



Kuala Lumpur Experiment Plots 1906 rxisting 



This does not include such smaller nurseries as the hill expei i- 

 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. 



I have no clue as to the exact dates of any of these gardens. 

 Possibly some of our readers may be able to give more of their 

 history. 



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 II have been abolished, after a life of from 

 four to fourteen years. 



