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A coral rockery has been made in a triangle of three paths between the Gardens’ 
lake and the Herbarium. West of the Lake and on the Bandstand hill the paths 
have been repaired. 
The bedding-out and the maintenance of a show of flowers in the plant-house 
annexe have been much improved. The first is due to the gradual organization of 
the nursery where the bedding-out plants are raised : the second to an increase in the 
number of men raising pot-plants by the employment of a Chinese gardener and to 
the making of high benches for his work in the sunniest spot available, namely, the rise 
west of the Cluny Lake. To Mr. J. W, ANDERSON, the Assistant Curator, considerable 
credit is due for his work in connection with these changes. Cannas, imported in 1913, 
and now first sufficiently multiplied, served chiefly for the bedding at the Main Gate. 
Roses have been put into the small round beds at the bandstand, because the constant 
replacing of herbs prevented the palms in the centre of each bed from progressing. 
The Water-lilies in the fake have done well: intermediates have appeared among 
them. Victoria regia has been planted in the larger pond below the lake. 
Dr. N. Annandale, Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, who visited the 
Gardens in September, has confirmed the identification of the common small fish of the 
lake as Haplochilus panchax ; a fish which has a great reputation for destroying- 
mosquito larvae. Dr. R. Hanitsch reported upon it three years ago in the Journal of 
the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 
Work on the Dell above the lake has been continued. A path into it from the 
upper end has been made by cutting off a part from the leaf-mould pit, which lies above 
it. The shape of the mounds in the Dell has been altered in order to give room 
enough for visitors to walk through without touching the possibly wet vegetation. 
The following bedding-out plants have been acquired, or re-acquired : — Hibiscus 
radiatus from the Director of Agriculture, Federated Malay States; A sy stasia 
travanc onca from Mr, R, M. Richards, Nibong Lebal ; Tricholsena rosea from 
Mrs. J. R. Nicholson, Singapore; and Galphimia brasiliensis from Mr. F. R. Long, 
Fulau Bulang. Morning Glory from Japanese seeds, did so well in the Gardens 
at the end of the year that it will be used again. The Director brought back from 
Pulau Tiuman, H xmaria discolor var. Ordiana , Dendrobiuni her* oglossum , Gastro- 
chilus plicatus , a new Parabcza, and some other plants ; also from Port Swettenham, 
Vanda Hookeriana and Rcnanthera elongata. From other sources Hsemaria discolor 
(type) and Calanthe rubens were obtained. Fifty Caladium bulbs were acquired from 
London 
The Hon’ble f. K. CALDECOTT presented to the Gardens plants of a beautiful 
Bornean Bauhinia which has not been determined. The United States Department of 
Agriculture supplied more seeds of Kokia Rockii from which one healthy plant has 
been raised in Singapore ; but it is feared that, like some other plants, it can only be kept 
alive by means of the artificial drainage of plant-pot culture, that is to say, it will 
be impossible to plant it out. Melaleuca hypericifolia raised, as recorded, in 1913, 
is still alive and healthy in a plant pot; but every attempt to plant it out has failed. 
Mr. R. G. FREEMAN was so kind as to send seed of Warsczewiczia from Trinidad, 
but it failed. Mr. H. N. Ridley, who revisited the East, presented seeds collected 
in Borneo. 
In all 1,240 plants were received in the Gardens and 541 packets of seed. 
Trees. — The tall palms ( Actinorhytis Calapparia ) on the bandstand hill are one- 
by-one fruiting and dying. All the specimens of the palm Wallichia disticha are 
fruiting and will die. The best specimen of the palm Kentia Woodfordii was lost by 
the fall of a roadside tree on to it. 
The common Box has been planted with success as a hedge. Pandanus penang- 
ensis and Agathis robusta fruited. Livistona Woodfordii, Astrocaryum Malybo, an 
unidentified Pandan, and Araucaria Cookii have been planted out. Randia Mus- 
saenda and Oxyanthus natalensis flowered for the first time. 
Trees generally throughout the open paits of the Gardens have been mulched 
with leaf-mould ; and in many cases with considerable benefit. 
Lawns. — -From the drier lawns the South American grass Paspalun platicaule is 
being removed, as it ousts the finer grasses, grows twice as fast, and consequently 
requires the scythe twice as often. It has been in Singapore for a long time. 
1,588 plants were sent out. 
274 small packets of seed were distributed. 
3,365 large seeds, such as Raphia, were sent, out, and 
2 Q lbs. of Tembusu seed. 
