Annual Report oil the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, 
for the year 1881 . 
The principal works carried out during the year in the Botanic 
Gardens and in other places connected with the gardens are, with some 
additional items of interest, detailed below. 
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2. — Visitors. — Visitors during the year have been apparently as 
numerous as in previous years. The precise number has not been ascer- 
tained, ®but carriages and riders on horse-back are seen to be most numer- 
ous in the mornings and evenings, and strangers upon Mail days. 
3. — Buildings. — The permanent buildings connected with the De- 
partment were observed, towards the close of the year, to require some 
petty repairs, and have been taken in hand by the Public Works Depart- 
ment. 
4. — The following new quarters have been erected, viz. : — One 
large coolie house, which accommodates all the Javanese employes ; 
a station for the garden constables; a small shed for the Chinese 
coolies ; a carpenter’s shop ; and a large 'potting shed. The quarters 
erected some time ago for the accommodation of a European employe 
have been put in order and ma.de available for the Garden Clerk. The 
construction of a new aviary was commenced before the year closed. 
5 - Introduction and Propagation of Plants.— The great de- 
mand for plants during the year has prevented any auction sales of surplus 
stock. Orders for plants to the number of half a million were received as 
the y T car closed, chiefly for Mauritius hemp. 
6. — The numbers of plants propagated, during jthe year were appro- 
ximately as under : — 
e/ 
Forest tree nursery, 
General do., 
Fancy plant do., 
Plant-house, 
70,000 
... 50,000 
... 40,000 
... 3,000 
163,000 
