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ago, is found to do remarkably well in the Dato Kramat Park, Penang, — better there 
than in the Waterfall Gardens, apparently because it desires more sun than is got 
at the foot of the hill. 
Pests . — The worst pest experienced was the human thief : there were several 
annoying thefts during the year, chiefly in the Economic Garden, Singapore, where 
the whole supply of particular plants was destroyed; and such thefts are likely to 
recur so long as the Gardens’ coolies live among the experiments. 
The caterpillar of a small moth of the genus Pachygamla damaged the leaves 
of Solatium melongena , the Trong; that of the moth Artaxa citrina was found 
destructive to seedlings of Balanocarpas, and that of the Pyralid Syllapta derogata, 
Bab., attacked cotton tree leaves. Mr. Holman Hunt kindly identified the first 
and Mr. V. Knight the second. 
Papaya plants were damaged by a mite, and monkeys proved very troublesome 
by breaking off the tender parts of the shoot. 
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Fourteen local galls were submitted to Dr. Docters van Leeuwen at Buiten- 
zorg for his determination and three tubes of insects to the Imperial Bureau of 
Entomology. 
Dry collections . — Herbarium specimens were received gratefully from Prof. 
C. F. Baker (ioo, being Fungi), the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg (202), the 
Government Botanist, Brisbane (30), and the Bureau of Science, Manila (20). The 
following were sent out x 
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Wo the Royal Bo tonic Gardens, Kew 
to the Bureau ofsscience, Manila 
to Mr. G. C. LloJd (fungi for determination, etc.) 
to Prof. Oakes Ames ... ^ 
to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta 
to the Botanic Gacdens, Buitenzorg 
to the Conservator of Forests^ Kuala Lumpur ... 
andjesser numbers to the P'orest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, the 
University of Cambridge, the University of California, Professor 
C. F. Baker, Dr. E. J.^Butler, the Forest Laboratory, Spokane, 
U. S. A., the British Museum of Natural History and the Govern- 
ment Botanist, Brisbane 
367 
122 
102 
92 
81 
79 
50 
87 
Total ... 980 
Hand specimens of timbers, to the number of 75, were sent to the same 
destinations. 
Mounting paper being still at a very high price, the mounting of specimens has 
been in general deferred. 
The specimens of the genus S/rychnos were loaned to the Assistant Director, 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for study and returned determined. 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 
By far the most important work done in the Botanic Gardens was the 
smoothing and planting of two-thirds of area Z which is towards Gallop Road : 
in doing so the opportunity was taken of duplicating some of the trees of the 
Economic Garden. It was not much duplication that could be done; but the 
declaration of the Singapore Housing Commission that the Economic Garden 
ought to be built over, threatened such an unexpected and serious blow at the 
activities of the Department that anything was worth doing; and no harm is done 
by possessing a few extra trees of important species Labour did not permit of 
the whole of area Z being got into a tidy condition ; but it will be done. Other 
conspicuous changes were the grassing of half of the ( anna beds of the old “ Rose- 
garden ” and the extension of the lower Nursery to the Cluny lake. The extension 
of the Nursery is a response to the big demand for ornamental plants, whereof 
there were sent out in the year no fewer than 
10,164 plants, with 
68 packets of seed. 
Among the plants sent out were four Wardian cases full, two of which were 
safely seen to Kew by the great kindness of Dr. G. E. Brooke, -of the Colonial 
Medical Service, and two by Mr. W. Fox, formerly of the Gardens Department. 
