AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN 
OF THE 
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STRAITS 
AND 
FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 
No. i.] 
JANUARY, 1908. 
[VOL. VII. 
NOTES ON THE ACCLIMATIZATION OF 
PLANTS — continued , 
Exotics. Plants of all kinds have been introduced at times from 
^ every part of the world, both from temperate and tropical regions. 
European plants.— A Denmark correspondent on one occasion 
sen a number of seeds and a couple of boxes of moorland peat 
containing a number of indigenous plants, such as Maianthemun, 
Scilla, grasses, etc. The boxes came quite open, and the plants 
in some cases were growing. On being attended to and watered 
a few grasses produced weak leaves and then disappeared. The Scilla 
fromTh |K p r 0tr ' j d ed two * eaves for some two or three inches 
from the bulb, during the voyage, but on arriving in Singapore 
made no further growth remaining stationary for some weeks after 
mark* 1 PenShed Meanwhile an oxalis with bright pink flowers 
freelv Thr arallCe Z b ° X and made a lar S e clump flowering 
to \j'<. f-f ,va ,! evidently not an European species, but I failed 
to identify it. It did not seed. Among the seeds sent a few 
germinated, but the only one which developed into a plant was 
f h e ZZ n TZ% -y and th *' S devel °P ed into a form not unlike 
denZ I t fl ' ° ler A ace T Wh ' ch lndeed is said t0 be specifically 
man brought a a " d ‘ ru,t, : d - ° n another occasion a gentle- 
^tthevlhould h! Ct, ° n of . s P n "g >“» to Singapore and asked 
drops Crocuses 5. gr0 . v ™ ln ‘he Gardens. They included Snow- 
°cuses, Hyacinths, Ranunculus and Tulips Those that 
wsshiss ft 
and then a,fter '° ng ^ br ° 3d leaVes 
M„tTwat V eS ,e Chi^ °aZ T ' LettUce - Cress - 
flowers but never a ’fertile fruit nd f P a . nd ^ llon / have all produced 
bably) developed iV lt o plants nf /* Coriander ( a Persian strain pro- 
y P 10 plants four or five inches tall, flowered and 
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