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and then gave up I. guatemalense for I. arrecta, it appeared probable that indigo 
cultivation in Kelantan might be improved by changing the species. With that in 
mind some plots of indigo were grown; but the experiments are incomplete. I. Anil 
m these experiments suffered from blight. /. sumatrana did better; but then 
/. sumatrana in Java was displaced by /. anil. 
/. linifolia and /. trifoliata gave good crops as green manure. 
Arboretum.— The Suari nut, Caryocar nuciferum, , fruited again ; but the seed 
could not be got to germinate. 
R- U bb er ' Fapping was stopped in August when the price of rubber upon the 
Singapore market was at its lowest, brom then to the end of the year the trees were 
rested. Up to that time labour was employed in the preparation of rubber at the 
rate of 8.72 men per diem. Over the whole year the rate of Labour for various 
purposes was for rubber 6.64 ; ior digging- and cultivating the experimental plots 
10.78; for cutting grass, 10.71 ; for nurseries, 6.47 ; for nursery stocks in pots, 1.99- 
for seed collecting, 1.57; on trees, I.OO; for sweeping, 15.61 ; on roads, 3.70- 
miscellaneous work, 1.44; and on the transfer of plants from the Economic Garden 
to new positions outside, 2.42. 
I hefts in the first part of the year were very annoying. 
Waterfall Gardens, Penang. 
i A great improvement was made in the Waterfall Gardens by smoothing the 
landslip above the central bridge and building a wall along the stream side. The 
bank now 1 ises at this place from a five feet high wall, twenty-two feet to a Ied°e and 
is continued upwards for a further fifteen feet. At the close of the year only & a few 
days work remained undone of the earthwork. 
On Decembei , the 8th, there was a phenomenal rain in Penang, with floods 
exceeding any lemembered ; the stream through the Gardens came down in spate, 
destroying the fernery fretting its banks, bringing down half of the foot bridge, cutting 
the main road by the Central Bridge, and breaking. away round the upper dam. For 
a time all the spare labour had to be employed clearing away debris ; and a special 
vote had to be asked for, to enable repairs to be done. 
The new loop ot the Upper North Road was completed and a sun rockery made 
by it. All the other roads in the upper half of the Gardens were narrowed as an 
economy. 
I he nucleus of a collection of Crotons was placed on the south side of the entrance 
gate; and cannas were bedded more extensively in the swampy hollow under the 
Reservoir. v 
.Several interesting orchids flowered, it would be gratifying to find an artist 
willing and able to make paintings of the novelties flowered in Penang. Tritonia 
Potts ii and Achimenes in wire baskets were among the most interesting of the plants 
which flowered. 
Plants were sent out to the number of 4,144, and of seeds 780 packets. 
Labour was used as follows : — For pot plants at the rate 10,72 men per diem ; 
on lawns, 5.91 ; on trees, 6.70; in sweeping, 3.15; in bedding, 3.00; on roads, 5.04; 
in the nurseries, 2.70; in the rockeries, 1. 00 and unclassed, 1.00. 
Other Charges, 
Loco-nut Inspection. Copra m 1918, was so unattractive that coco-nut palms 
were generally subject to neglect; but not more so than in 1917. In Singapore 2*7 
notices were served; in Malacca (Central division) 217; in Jasin, 213; and in Alor 
Gajah 368. Five summons followed in Singapore, 34 in Malacca, 8 in Jasin, and 
38 in Alor Gajah. the material causing the action was: — 
In Singapore 
In Malacca 
In Jasin 
In Alor Gajah 
Dead trees. 
Trunks 
or stumps. 
Accumulations 
of rubbish. 
247 
L 963 
98 
323 
786 
215 
234 
412 
214 
472 
1,416 
85 
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