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dent's house has been repaired throughout, and six chains from the 

 nursery to the East Indian section. A circular piece of road has been 

 provided for the convenience of turning carriages opposite the large 

 Royal Palm. The length of road repaired is 56 chains and has been 

 raised over a width of 12 feet, an average of 3 inches this operation 

 entails much labour. The operation will however soon have to be re- 

 peated, the traffic over this piece of road now being considerable. 



The fences are nearly all now in good order, a new T iron gate was 

 put in place of the old wooden one near the conduit. The admirable 

 gate posts are the product of the Teak plantation in the Gardens ,* 

 these, set in cement, bid fair to last for a great number of years. 

 78 \ chains of fence were repaired during the year, good growing 

 posts of Hog Plum have mostly been used, nearly all these are grow- 

 ing and will render the repairs to be done this year very little. 



Ornamental Plants. — Roses— The rose garden has been kept in 

 good order ; this is necessary, as the quantity of wood required from 

 which to make cuttings is very large, and the demand is increasing ; 

 the area is the same as in last year's report. 



The ornamental border of the large lawn has also been planted and 

 kept in good order. The following plants have been remarkable for 

 their beauty : — 



Seedling Cannas : one with a fine spike of red flowers ; several 

 fine dwarfs of the Madame Crozy type ; also a yellow spotted 

 one. 



Cannas from Kew : 

 Alphonse Lorenze 

 Charlotte Rothschild. 

 Madame Crozy . 



The first is a very handsome dark flowered Canna with flowers of 

 the best type with a good spike and large handsome dark foliage. 



The second has flowers of the best type, colours red with a deep 

 yellow band, also a fine spike, foliage green. 



Madame Crozy is deep orange with a yellow band, many of the seed- 

 lings are quite as good as this. 



Solanum Wendlandianum received from Kew, a climbing plant, 

 native of Costa Rica, has made very rapid growth and flowered welL 

 The flowers are in large cymes, each flower being about 2\ inches- 

 across, the cymes being often 8 or 9 inches across, the colour a very 

 delicate lilac blue. 



The following plants from Kew have also flowered for the first 

 time and have proved themselves valuable acquisitions : — 

 Tecoma Mackenii Pergularia odoratissima 



Thunbergia grandiflora, a pure white one. Vitex trifolia. 



AUamanda Williamsii 

 The following desirable foliage plants have also been received and are 

 growing well : — 



Chickrassia tabularis, from Kew, a plant with very pretty pinnate 



leaves, the points of the young leaves being pink, 

 Thuja compacta and Euonymus japonica, from Messrs. Reasoner, 

 Florida. 



Strobilanthes Dyerianus from Kew. 

 The plants of Camoensia maxima have not been a success, one of 



