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Plants were supplied free to the garden of the Wireless Station and to the General 
Hospital. 
Economic Gardens. 
{Area ioo Acres, i Rood, 31 Perches). 
In the report for 1915, information vras given on the allocation of an area for 
fruit trees ; in 1916, the terracing of this area was proceeded with as labour could be 
spared, but it was not completed. 
Replacements were made throughout the rubber blocks, and diagonal drains cut 
through Block 5 for the isolation of the trees attacked by Fomes semitostus. In doing 
this several Casuarinas intermixed with the rubber were removed. 
A small amount of damage was done by the caterpillar of Papilio polytes to orange 
seedlings. The bug Aphanocnemis phasiana was found on Cajanus indicus, — a plant 
which it attacks in Southern India. 
Thieves were worse than any other pest. The thefts of yams recurred so 
often, always on Saturdays or Sctnriays, that a watchman had to be detailed to guard 
against them. There were also thefts of other produce, probably by Gardens’ coolies. 
Two Chinese house-thieves were caught and went to jail. 
Several pineapples were raised weighing above 12 lbs. 
In August, the Director addressed the Malacca Planters’ Association on the 
subject of the selection of rubber trees, and obtained the promise of assistance from 
, several gentlemen who were present at the meeting. The modus operandi is to 
plant the selected Gardens’ stock out as stumps on the estates in places where it 
can have a fair trial, and always open to examination. 
Latex was supplied to three experimenters, and rubber seed for experiment to a 
large firm of soap-makers. An exhibit illustrating the tapping of Hevea and the latex 
of Hevea and Dyera was supplied for exhibition in the United States. 
4,075 lbs. of rubber were made, 
324,960 seeds of Hevea brasiliensis sold, 
4,000 seedlings of Hevea brasiliensis sold, 
330 packets of economic seeds sent out, 
937 economic plants other than Hevea sent out. 
The rubber seed crop was one of the largest that has been recorded. The 
’Seed-fall occurred quite abnormally. 
Waterfall Gardens, Penang. 
(Area 79 Acres, i Rood, 7 Perches). 
The water-supply system was cleaned and extended to the Fern Rockery, where 
rough granite steps were made and the beautiful Cyrtodera fulgens planted widely. 
The bank of the stream below the central bridge was cleared, smoothed and returfed. 
Considerable metalling was done to the roads. It is noticed that motorists use the 
Gardens' roads for testing their engines, a purpose for which they are not made; and 
it may become necessary to close the steeper ones to them. 
A collection of Burmese orchids was obtained, Mr. C. S. May was so good as 
to give seed of Strophanihus , and Mr. Lawrie C. Brown seed of Thespesia and of 
other plants. 
The beetle, Acythopeus aterrimus, was identified as damaging orchids, notably 
Phalaenopsis esmeralda , Vanda teres, V, Hookeri , Cypripedium niveum and 
Rhynchostylis retusa , by Dr. G. A. K. MARSHALL of the Imperial Bureau of 
Entomology. 
The last plants of Kokia Rockii and Widdringtonia Whytei (Mlanji Cedar) died. 
When supplying the seed of the latter in 1913, Mr. E. W. Davy, Chief Forest Officer 
of the Nyasaland Protectorate, stated that it rarely thrives at Zomba for more than 
10-12 years: but it was hoped that the more uniform climate of the Malay Peninsula 
might offer it more suitable conditions, it will be tried again. 
The sprawling Lankawi bamboo, Schizostachyum elegans, flowered and died, but 
first furnished material from which Mr. Ridley described it. The handsome Mono- 
horia introduced in 1915 is not doing well. The Ipoh tree Antiaris Loxicama was 
ound to exist in the neighbourhood of the Gardens lines. 
One hundred and sixty-eight orders were met. 
