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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 
1828 
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 „ 
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or Telok Anson 
First Selangor Garden 
1908 
1906 
Kuala Lumpur Experiment Plots 
1906 
existing 
This does not include such smaller nurseries as the hill experi- 
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. 
