THE LOWER NURSERY 
The Lower Nursery exists for raising stocky and the Sales List is more or less a catalogue of its contents. They 
need not be described here, but it is well to remark upon the occurrence of certain trees on the border of it. On the 
east side Rattans have been planted. At the head is a fine clump of Dendrocalamus giganteus ; and near it the Cacao Tree, 
Theobroma Cacao, grows well. The pods are carried on the trunk and thicker branches. Towards the lower end of the 
Nursery is Parkia Roxburghii, a tall graceful feathery-leaved tree. Near it is a clump of the Screw-pine, Pandanus 
labyrinthicus , with a path cut through so as to show how well it merits its second name from the tangle which its 
air-roots make. 
On the other side of the road at this point attention should be directed to the clump of Montrichardia aculeata. 
This tall Arum Lily lines the shores of the Amazon and other South American rivers, and grows well in Singapore, 
though flowering little; whereas the African Arum Lilies, of European greenhouses (Richardia spp.), will not 
thrive in Singapore, 
THE NEW CIRCLE 
The New Circle is a path which takes off from the Palm Valley Road at its lower end and, curving through Lawn Z, 
comes out on Lawn R at the top of the Palm Valley. The part of the Gardens in which it is, was not part of the 
original 56 acres obtained in 1859 by the Agri-Horticultural Society, but was purchased in 1866. For a variety of 
reasons its development was hindered, and much of the planting therein dates only from 1919, 
At the Nursery end the path is level for a hundred yards. On the right hand side of it rise two trees of Shorea 
hracteolatat close to which Vatica Wallichii has been planted and the palm Astrocaryum tucumoides of the Amazons 
raises its foliage high. 
On the left hand side Bombax laratense is planted, and near it may be seen Balsamocitrus paniculata and Casimiroa 
edulis. These two are allies of the oranges, the first is African and the second American. The leaves of Casimiroa 
are medicinal ; its fruit is unwholesome and soporific. The more useful and allied Aegle marmelos, Bel-fruit tree, will 
be found planted higher up the hill. 
