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18. — This house, together with that previously mentioned, gives the 
Gardens an immense additional accommodation for plants, which, if pro- 
perly taken advantage of, cannot fail to raise them to a position of great 
public utility, the want of accommodation and system being heretofore 
the chief impediments to progress. 
19. — General Store-house. — A Tool Store and general Store-house 
has been procured by arrangements which admitted of the Garden Man- 
dore’s quarters being converted into a store-room and the Mandore quar- 
tered elsewhere. 
20 — Formation of a Nursery for Ornamental Foliage anti 
Delicate Plants generally. — The utility of the Gardens has been 
much enhanced by the creation of a Nursery for the propagation of 
fancy and delicate plants. Such plants were, up to the date of my arrival, 
propagated only to a limited extent, chiefly in wine cases and pots. 
21. — The Nursery created for their propagation adjoins the plant- 
lunse first mentioned, is about an acre in extent, and was formerly under 
jungle. 
22. — In the formation of this Nursery, care was taken to open out the 
leaf canopy of the jungle so as to admit the requisite amount of light 
without admitting the direct deteriorating rays of the sun. Paths have 
been made through the ground, and beds formed edged with moss. In 
these beds plants of all the more delicate kinds have been propagated 
throughout the year with great success, and the Nursery being of a kind 
ucav to the Gardens has been much' admired by visitors. 
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23. — In this Nursery plants are found to take root in nearly half the 
time required in the more open ground, and even Crotons and the more 
hardy plants follow the same rule. 
24. — About 10,000 plants bave been reared during the year in this 
Nursery alone and disposed of in various ways, see para. 75. 
25. — Forest Tree Nursery. — During the year, the Forest Tree Nur- 
sery has been extended over the greater portion of the marshy land lying 
below the Nursery formed last year, which being composed for the 
most part of vegetable matter washed down from the surrounding hill 
slopes has proved better suited to the growth of seeds and plants than the 
land previously cleared. 
20. — The number of trees raised and sent out from this Nursery is 
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given at para. 74. 
27. — Formation of a Reserve for Cut Flowers. — A flower reserve 
has been created at the extreme west corner of the Gardens. The area 
of this reserve is about 3 acres, and has been planted with about 3,000 
selected flowering* shrubs. The reserve has been found useful in meeting 
the demand for cut flowers, and preventing the flower beds on the lawns 
being denuded. 
28. — Propagation in the houses has almost ceased, owing to the better 
accommodation for such work elsewhere, except in the case of a few 
particularly delicate plants for which a wooden frame covered with glass 
has been made by the Garden Carpenter. This frame has three large 
moveable glass sashes and covers a space of about 110 square feet and has 
been found very useful during the year in dealing with the class of plants 
just named. 
