Classification of Reserves. 
46. I he Forest Reserves in Malacca may be thus classified r — town Reserves— 
Bukit Bruang and Sungei Udang; timber, village and climatic Reserves— Merlimau, 
Ayer Panas, Panchor, Brisu, and Jus. 
Description of Reserves. 
47; The following table shows the nature of the growing stock within the Reserves. 
It will be observed that the proportion of timber-covered area in' Malacca is much 
larger than in Singapore. 
Name of Reserves. 
Area under 
timber. 
Area under 
brushwood 
and smalltrees. 
Area under 
grass and fern. 
Area planted 
during the 
year. 
Total area 
artificially 
re-stocked. 
Remarks. 
Acres. 
A cres. 
A cres. 
A cres. 
Acres. 
Bukit Bruang, 
700 
1,000 
34 
1 
3 
Sungei Udang, . . . 
3,000 
1,000 
800 
Ayer Panas, 
3,000 
900 
Bukit Panchor, . . 
2,000 
1,640 
, . , 
Merlimau, 
6,000 
. ♦ . 
Brisu, 
1,000 
B247 
... 
Total,... 
15,700 
r-C 
GO 
C"» 
>0 
_ 134 
1 
3 
Planting. 
o 
48. But little planting has been done in Malacca, and little is required, except, 
perhaps, the introduction of Gutta Percha and other trees producing commercial 
produce other than timber into Reserves occupying positions from which timber 
transport might be attended with difficulty, and with a view of restoring to the colony 
its lost commerce in these articles. 
Protection and Up-keep of Reserves. r 
49. A staff of ten watchmen have been at work during the year, the average 
charge per man being about 2,232 acres. Cost about three cents per acre per annum. 
Ten arrests for illicit wood-cutting were made, and eight convictions obtained. 
Fines to the amount of $147 were imposed and paid. 
Nurseries. 
50. In the Bukit Bruang Nursery, the following plants have thriven well, not- 
withstanding the uncongenial soil, viz. : — Mahogany, Cedrela, Furcraea, Bassia, 
1 1 eve a, Oranges, &c., but native timber trees do best, Tampinis especially, a large 
number of which was sent to Singapore during the year for plantation in the Reserves 
there. The Nursery is on the point of being closed, and the stock transferred to a new 
Nursery at Bukit Sa Bokor, where the formation of an Experimental Nursery on the 
same principle as that at Singapore was begun before the year closed. 
The object of the Nursery is to test the adaptability "to the soil of an immense number 
of foreign economic plants at present little known in Malacca. Compensation for 
growing crops on land taken up for this Nursery cost 8834. 
51. A sm all N urseryfor the propagation of forest trees was opened towards the 
close of the- year within the Sungei Udang Reserve, and in it a number of the seedling 
Mahogany raised from Kew seed, have been planted, for trial in the waste 
lands surrounding the Nursery, and to which they will be transferred when sufficiently 
grown. 
