highest award, the R.H.S. Gold Medal, and as a result the Fourth World 
Orchid Congress has been attracted to hold its meeting in Singapore in 1963, 
Vandanthe Wendy Scott ‘Blue Bird’, a cultivar of a cross made in these 
Gardens and grown by Mr, Boey Chun Heng, was given an Award of Merit. 
86. The Botanic Gardens participated at the Malayan Agrihorticultural 
Association Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, 29-31 July, and staged a non- 
competitive exhibit which was the outstanding attraction of the horticultural 
section. A large quantity of plants was taken for sale and $2,222.50 was 
obtained as revenue. Mr. H. M. Burkill and Mr, A. G. Alphonso were both 
judges in the horticultural competitive sections of the exhibition. 
87. The Gardens staged the centre piece for the Annual Flower Show 
under the auspices of the Singapore Gardening Society held at the Happy 
World Stadium 1-3 April. This was a landscape of near 800 square feet of 
a garden around a miniature waterfall. Mr. Burkill was Chairman of the 
Show Committee and Mr. Alphonso was the Show Manager. Many members 
of the Gardens were judges for the competitive sections. 
88. The Annual Show of the Malayan Orchid Society was held 30th 
September to 2nd October also in the Happy World Stadium. His Excellency 
the Yang di-Pertuan Negara opened the show. The following are extracts of 
his opening speech: 
“The year 1960 will go down in history as a very auspicious year for the 
Malayan Orchid Society. In winning the coveted gold medal at the world-famous 
Chelsea Show ... the Malayan Orchid Society has won world acclaim for her 
orchids ... 1 am glad to say that more than 90 per cent of the blooms were 
hybrids raised in Malaya . . . The Botanic Gardens have pioneered the work 
in this branch of horticulture . . . and it is gratifying to know that apart from 
the Botanic Gardens there are no less than 40 people in Singapore alone, who 
are doing their own crossing and breeding . . . During the last four years the 
Malayan Orchid Society, the Singapore Gardening Society and particularly the 
Botanic Gardens have been sending orchid blooms for exhibition overseas . . . 
it is the overseas exhibitions that will publicise and popularise the many new 
hybrids which are continually being produced in Malaya . . . with encouragement 
and guidance from the Malayan Orchid Society l t and its sister Society, the 
Singapore Gardening Society, and the technical advice and assistance from 
the Botanic Gardens, 1 have no doubt that an orchid industry can be 
established . . 
89. The Gardens put up a non-competitive group of some 200 orchid 
plants landscaped in a rock garden around a “summerhouse” and miniature 
pool. The Challenge Cup for the best local hybrid flowering for the first time 
was won by a plant of Dendrobium Noor Aishah raised from a cross made 
in the Gardens. The pedigree of this hybrid is: 
Species parents 
(Country D. capra D. mirbellianum x D. undulatum 
of origin) (Java) (New Guinea. (Queensland, 
Moluccas) New Guinea) 
D. Champagne 
D. Noor Aishah 
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