340 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Moonflowers, Heliotrope, Lophospermum scandens, Gloriosa superba, 
blue Clitoria, Mina lohata, Antigonon leptopus (* coral creeper '), 
Thunhergia, and various climbing beans, as well as a thick belt of 
bananas and palms, were introduced, entirely enclosing the court. 
A suitable approach from the Avenue was made by the erection of 
a pergola of creepers (fig. 195). 
Still a further effort was made to give variety of restfulness. The 
old prison garden, referred to above, had meanwhile been used for 
raising seedlings under sloped matting shelters. These -were all 
moved farther away, the ground made hard by " debbi," and an 
enclosed Dutch garden with shaped flower-beds substituted. In the 
centre of this the banks of the stream were dug out to make a pond, 
with steps, on one side straight, on the other curved, with seats each 
side from which fish and water-lilies could be viewed at leisure (fig. 196). 
An archway from one side connects it with the Avenue ; a seat in 
the pergola gives a view of it from the other side (fig. 197) . 
A further ornamental development originated as a pest preventive. 
A little distance away, a group of Pomelo trees seemed to harbour 
swarms of grasshoppers, and to avoid the real danger of their en- 
croaching upon the cultivated garden, a wide grass road was carried 
right across from east to west, and flanked by horse-radish trees 
(Moringa pterygosperma (in Hausa, ' Zogalagandi These would 
not thrive in the trough of the valley, so they were made to give place 
to Cassava [Manihot palmata), forming a dense, rounded evergreen 
hedge. This road served the further purpose of affording a suitable 
crossing of the garden for horsemen. To link this up with the Bad- 
minton court a short grass walk was made, called " Peggy Pass," 
and lined with Duranta Ellisii and D. Plumerii. The intervening 
ground was devoted to the cultivation of tomatos, and, on the soil 
proving too damp, to cabbages, and bananas on the damper slope; 
also, experimental sugar-cane tests were made here. 
The work had now so developed that more labour was essential, 
and, the public utility and service of the garden having gradually 
become recognized by the Resident, Mr. E. J. Arnett,* who had all 
through been most sympathetic and helpful in the effort, a further 
supply of prison labour was granted from the Town prison. 
This was the turning-point in the development of the garden. 
The Governor, Sir Frederick Lugard, visited it at this stage, two 
years after the conception of the idea, and gave it official recognition 
by sanctioning the grant of a nominal payment to the native 
administration for their prison labour. 
The work was temporarily interrupted by the Medical Officer 
returning to England on leave, and being torpedoed en route. During 
his absence an interesting experiment was accidentally made. An 
Assistant District Officer, anxious to provide a supply of palm-poles, 
had sown a number of palm-seeds. No record of this having been 
left for Dr. Moiser's information on his return, he planted the same 
* Now Lieutenant-Governor. 
