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Description of Reserves . 
24. The Reserves cover the best forests that remain in the Settlement. The fol- 
lowing table will show the nature of their contents, viz. : — 
Names of Forest 
Reserves. 
Approxi- 
mate area 
under tim- 
ber. 
Approxi- 
mate area 
under 
brushwood. 
Approxi- 
mate area 
under grass 
and fern. 
Area artifi- 
cially 
stocked 
during the 
year. 
Total area 
artifi- 
cially stock- 
ed. 
Blukang, 
A cres. 
1,400 
Acres. 
1 14 
A cres. 
Acres. 
Acres. 
Murai, 
300 
H 
, . » 
• • , 
Kranji, 
560 
6 
180 
» » * 
Selitar, 
1,000 
492 
Ang Mo Kio, 
200 
90 
Changi, 
900 
. . . 
493 
Bukit Pan j ang, 
W 
, . , 
100 
Military, 
59 
16 
6 
34 
Mandai, 
100 
200 
107 
Sambawang, 
378 
100 
458 
Bukit Tirnah, 
3 °° 
218 
328 
*3 
1 1 8 
Pandan, 
720 
42 
1,400 
Jurong, 
137 
106 
169 
6 
6 
Chan Chu Kang, 
200 
200 
4 i 3 
T otal, . . . 
6,212 
1,059 
4,246 
25 
158 
25. The wooded portions of the Reserves comprise, in many cases, good timber 
of all kinds common to the country, and, as will be seen from the map appended, is 
rendered easy of removal by good roads and by water. 
Planting Waste Lands. 
26. In addition to the above, a belt of about 10 acres was planted behind Taifg- 
lin Barracks to protect the soldiers' quarters from the malarial miasma arising from 
adjoining swamps, and six miles of boundary line were planted with bamboo. 
The number of young trees planted out during the year was 50,000, and com- 
prised chiefly, Bintangor, Tembusu, Eucalyptus, Serayah, Kayu-minyak, Meranti, 
Rumpus, Casuarina, Eugenia, &c. ; and all have grown well. 
27. The following are measurements of present size of seedlings planted in 
Bukit Tim ah Reserv 
e in 
1884-85, and which 
were about 
a foot in height at the time of 
planting : — 
*> 
l 
Mahogany, 
8 
feet. 
Hymenaea, 
5 
feet. 
Cassia Florida, 
10 
feet. 
Serayah, 
6 
)3 
Eugenia, 
India Cedar, 
6 
) ) 
Teak, 2 to 
15 
1 H 
Bintangor, 
5 
j y 
4 
7 ) 
Meranti, 
3 
M 
Casuarina, 
10 
Dipterocarpus, 
3 
jy 
Ketapong, 
3 
J ) 
Kelat, 
8 
) ) 
Ebony, 
6 
j j 
Mirabau, 
6 
y y 
Dipterocarpus ^ 
Jack, 
10 
)7 
Lagerstraemia, 
3 
>) 
tubirculatus, j 
3 
1 y 
Kumpas, 
3 
yj 
Albizzia, 
15 
>y 
The cost of planting was found to be about $20 per acre, including cost of raising 
the seedlings in the Nursery. The state of natural reproduction in some of the 
Reserves is very satisfactory ; young seedlings are now making their appearance in 
places which shewed no traces of them before protective measures were adopted ; the 
same can be said of the Reserves in the other Settlements. 
Weeding. 
28. About 80 acres of the plantations made at Bukit Timah in 1884-85 and 
about 20 acres of the Military Reserve have been gone over, and the young trees 
cleared of obstructive vegetation. It would be an advantage to the trees as well as re- 
coup possibly the cost of weeding, if some crops such as indigo or sweet potatoes 
were cultivated between the lines of trees. 
