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Latex was supplied to two experimenters. To Mr. WALTER JACKSON the 
Gardens were much indebte i for finishing off the smoking of some rubber wanted at 
an earlier date than the Gardens’ method of curing would have given it. 
2,685 ^s. of smoked rubber were prepared. 
360,000 seeds of Hevea brasiliensis sold. 
3,000 seedlings of Hevea brasiliensis sold. 
10 consignments of economic seed other than Hevea sent out. 
761 economic plants other than Hevea were sold. 
Granite posts kindly supplied by the Public Works Department were set up at the 
gates to prevent unauthorized entry of carts, and a chain with a lock hung across the 
way in from Cluny Road. 
Waterfall Gardens, Penang. 
The supplementary grant for the Waterfall Gardens of $925 enabled a considerable 
amount ol work to be carried through, e.g., the Bandstand hill was crowned with a 
ring of granite posts connected together with chains, the old mill dam was repaired, 
the foundations of a dam laid above the Middle Bridge, and metalling obtained and 
laid along the whole of the Lower South Road and the Upper Central Road. 
The bandstand now looks purposeful, and the fall over the mill dam is a great 
improvement as well as the resulting filling in of the rough stream bed above it. 
It is not quite certain — but probably correct — that the dam formerly served to 
maintain a head of water for a mill working in the valley below, and that at another 
time a pipe line was laid from above it to the Cantonment. But freshet after freshet, 
fretted the south bank on to which a large boulder deflected their force, so that in rgo8 
the stream was able to work round the dam. The Overseer has removed the offending 
boulder, and made so strong an embankment that there is little fear of it breaking 
again. 
The embankment is faced with boulders taken out of tlie lawns which are 
smoother by their removal. 
The dam above the middle bridge is intended to preserve the south bank of the 
stream at a point so near to the bridge that the latter will go if the destruction of the 
bank is allowed to continue. The water will be thrown straight towards the bridge 
over three slightly curved steps. The banks above the dam are being strengthened 
by means of stones in wire cages. To get the stones required without seeking them 
from far away, it was decided to dig out a knoll on the north side at a point where the 
gradient of the Upper North Road was too steep, and to turn the road in it. 
With girders kindly given , by the Municipality of George Town, three small 
bridges have been made: two are over the stream just below the pipe aqueduct, and 
one i? on the stream side path : granite slabs are laid on the girders. These bridges 
replace decayed wooden structures. A part of the adjoining lawns have been (fug 
over for lallang ; and two drains have been laid in the swamp which is below the 
Reservoir. Granite posts have been set on either side of the embanked part of the 
Upper South Road, and will be connected together by chains. 
There is a hollow close to this embankment where Nelumbiums used to be grown; 
but so much silt now comes down to the place from the Hill Road that the Nelum- 
biums have been killed: the silt is being used to fill up the hollow as that is the best 
I alternative. 
Two Angsana trees have*died on the north side of the Garden, and one large tree 
has been removed on the south side to give room to the neighbouring Dacrydiums. 
The flowering and seeding of Eucalyptus corymbosa in the upper part of the 
Garden must be recorded as it has furnished a stock of 50 seedlings in Singapore and 
80 in Penang, wherefrom it is expected that the public can be supplied, ^The same 
Eucalyptus fruited on the Kubang Ulu reserve in Province Wellesley. A curious 
variety of Grammatophyllum speciosum flowered : it is distinguished by the number and 
small size of the spots on the flower. 
The Garden was enriched by 731 desirable plants collected on the Overseer’s trip 
to Lankawi, by the gift from Mr. A. A. Antony of cuttings of several showy plants, 
of Dipladenia. amabilis from Mr. Barnard, and an orchid from Mr. Edward. 
Further a number of plants .were brought in from the Singapore Gardens. 
By exchange or gift, 15 packets of seed were sent out and 155 plants. Eighty- 
seven orders for plants were met, resulting in revenue as above stated. 
