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-especially when conflicting interests are taken into consideration. All 

 kinds of experiments have to he carried out, which cannot be delayed ; 

 and besides there are the frequent droughts which make it useless to 

 put out plants unless they can be well watered. 



The following work has been carried out in connection with the 

 scheme. Four acres of land have been cleared of weeds and bush, 

 thoroughly forked, cleared of large quantities of stones, nicely levelled 

 and planted with Bahama grass ; this in the Tropical African section. 

 After the planting of the Bahama grass, the work of establishing it is 

 by no means done, in fact it is hardly begun ; for the watering in such 

 a dry year is very expensive; and the weeding which must be done is 

 endless. 



The following trees have been planted in the Malayan and East 

 Indian section : — Chonemorpha Griffithii ; Ficus elastica ; Ficus 

 religiosa ; Ficus infectoria ; Ficus indica ; Mimusops Elengi ; Coidia 

 Myxa ; Eugenia malaccensis ; Citrus decumana ; Cananga odorata ; 

 Nephelium Litchi ; Leea sambucina ; Gynocardia odorata; Bassia 

 latifolia; Acacia cyanophylla ; Rhododendron indica ; Morinda citrifolia ; 

 Livistona chinensis ; Rhapis flabelliformis ; Chickrassia tabularis ; 

 Wrightia tinctoria ; Exccecaria Agallocha. In the Australian Section : 

 Dendrocalamus strictus ; Casuarina Cunningahamii. Near the Chinese 

 Section — Diospyros discolor. 



I hope during this year to carry out a greater proportion of this 

 work than heretofore but of course the same difficulties present them- 

 selves year after year ; each acre of land that is brought into culti- 

 vation makes the daily routine grow larger. 



Hope Industrial School — The theoretical teaching has been carried 

 out on the same lines as in previous years, my aim being to make the 

 theoretical teaching the interpretation of the practical operations 

 carried on in the Garden. The boys can carry out details of planting, 

 preparing land, pruning, budding, tc, and give clearly and intelligently 

 their reasons for so doing. 



Insecticides. — During the past year I have paid a good deal of atten- 

 tion to the question of the destruction of scale insects, and tried many 

 formulae for making insecticides. The most effectual insecticide, in 

 fact, the only effectual one on scale insects which I have used is the 

 Telola insecticide — this mixed with water usually kills scale insects 

 after two or three sprayings at intervals of three or four days. 



Jadoo. — Experiments were carried out with Jadoo as a soil and as 

 a manure. As a soil for Begonias, it was as good as the best and most 

 carefully prepared soil obtainable, and perhaps a trifle better. Mixed 

 with ordinary soil I could not see, with one exception that it did any 

 good at all ; the exception was with orange seeds, it prevented the 

 " damping off" so prevalent in young orange seedlings. 



As a manure I have tried it with the utmost possible care on 

 Arabian Coffee, and it did not make the slightest difference to it. 



The Jadoo liquid tried on a Bahama grass lawn was equally ineffectual. 



Visitors. — In conclusion, I am glad to be able to report that the 

 Gardens are becoming much more popular, the number of increasing 

 every year. As many as 586 have visited the Gardens in one day, 

 the total for the year being 12,037. 



