in the coconut water. Greater use was made of added banana pulp. Excellent 
results came from the use of both banana pulp and the more dilute coconut 
water. Over 1,200 flasks were in use. 
77. An additional seedling house was built making, now five houses 
in all. These accommodated about 11,500 seedlings at the end of the year. 
Some 1,881 seedlings graduated to be grown in the open. Thirty-nine new 
beds were prepared and planted for large scale multiplication of selected 
varieties of arachnis-type hybrids. 
78. A large proportion of the seedlings will be sold unflowered from 
the seedling house to the nursery trade and to the public through the Gardens’ 
plant sales office. Also considerable quantities of off-shoots and cuttings of 
mature selected hybrids will be sold. It is this ready supply of proven and 
new but promising material upon which Singapore’s young and growing 
orchid nursery trade vitally rests. But the limitations of space are becoming 
a critical handicap. In the past six years the collection of orchids has ex- 
panded from a space little bigger than a tennis court till now it occupies 3 
acres — and that after disposal by sale of enormous numbers of seedlings for 
which neither house or nursery room can be found. Without the provision of 
further space for seedling houses and nursery area, this work cannot continue 
at the present tempo which has won a considerable reputation for Singapore. 
79. The following hybrid families which flowered for the first time in 
1959 were registered: 
BGS — 
1672 Brassidium Tan Lean Bee ( Brassia maculata x Oncidium lanceanum). 
1823 Opsisanda George Addison (Vanda Kapoho x Vandopsis lissochiloides). 
This cross is named after Mr. G. H. Addison, Curator, Botanic 
Gardens, Singapore, 1938-59, who had charge of the Gardens' work 
on orchid hybridising for several years. 
2440 Dendrobium Heng Mui Keng ( D . leporinum x D. Leeanum). 
Flowering for the first time were siblings of the following families: 
BGS— 
2353 Dendrobium Tan Teo Kim (D, Ursula x D. Tan Chye Siam). 
2134 Dendrobium Noor Aishah (D. caprax D. Champagne). This cross is 
named after thfe wife of Singapore’s Head of State. 
2013 1 Vanda Ruby Prince x Vandanthe Ellen Noa (Proposed name V’the 
2302 f Kupu-kupu). 
2196 Arachnis Hookeriana var. luteola x Vandanthe Tatzeri (proposed name 
Arandanthe Bintang). 
2194 Vanda dearei x Vandanthe Tatzeri (Proposed name Anna Jackson). 
2327 Dendrobium Medusa x D. Ursula. 
2325 Dendrobium Louisae x D. Constance. 
2651 Dendrobium Pompadour ‘Phra Taba’ xD, Rose Marie. 
2059 Dendrobium Mt. Waialeale x D. Champagne. 
2050 Dendrobium Clara Cooper x D. Constance. 
2516 Dendrobium GouldiixZ). mirbellianum. 
2437 Dendrobium undulatum var. broomfieldii x D. sp. indet. (N. Guinea) 
2261 Dendrobium Medusa x D. Constance. 
2696 Dendrobium Louisae (dark form) x D. Lady Constance. 
2502 Dendrobium Indonesia x D. Champagne. 
2348 Dendrobium Dang Toi x D. morganster. 
16 
