Lawn Y- 
Nux’sepy and vegetable garden: see separate report 
Lawn Z, Grass cutting. The seedling Bongalnvilleas on the former 
Assistant Director’s tennis court are growing well. A number 
of the seedling Hippeaetrum bulbs ha\'’e flowered and are being 
put aside for further selection. They promise to be a vory^ 
useful addition to our flowering plants. A number of additions 
were made to the Cannae in this area, where an attempt is being 
made to produce a stock free x'rom disease. 
15. D rains . 
I^oadside drains have been cleaned of earth etc. each Saturday. 
Some have also been weeded; but with the extra work now given to 
vegetables and to grass cutting (owing to disuse of motor mowers) 
there is less labour available for this service. 
16. Vers table Gardens . 
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(a) The following beds were re-conditioned and planted: 
L beds Long bean 
if ” Ladies fingers 
Brlnjel 
Cucumber 
Maize 
Chew Choy, Choy Sam 
Bayani 
if 
5 
tt 
ff 
tf 
2 beds i^rench bean 
2 " Angled luff a 
Kangkong 
Cow pea (short) 
Cluster bean 
Snake gourd 
Hairy Kuncior 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 
ft 
bed 
ir 
tl 
n 
Many Tapioca and Sweet potato cuttings were planted. The 
removal of laost of the Keladis to a fresh site was completed 
, this month. 
(b) The small area allotted to Papaya and Citrus was planted with a 
catch crop of Arachis hypogaea (Groundnut). It v/il] serve with 
benefit as a leguminous cover crop and may be li^'ted vvith profit 
TTionths hence. 
ic) The selection of a few purple seeds of Maize from local cods gave 
a first generation of larger cobs and seeds; the latter being 
distinctly more purple and numerous. The seeds were collected 
precisely ^ months after planting. It is hopeo to proouce a 
local strain of pure purple cobs in the next few generations. 
(d) A bed was prepared for the reception of Psophocarpus tetragonolobus 
(Pour-angled bean). Some vegetable gardening books say that this 
plant produces edible tuberous roots, but on examination ore ycax 
old plants in the Botanic Gardens did not show any form of 
tuberous roots. It is expected V.iat the bed planted /.ith the 
above plants will in due course produce large sized tubers on 
removal of flower buds and not permitting to form pods op run 
to seeds. 
(e) A number of kinds of Cucumber, Brinjals, Gourds and iomato seeds 
from Japan are on trial in the Garden plots. 
(f) .Six gallons of both Kerosene Smulsion and Tobacco Nicotine stock 
solution we^e prepared to comoat plant pests. 
(fi) Three large heaps of fresh compost .vere manufactured to substitute 
cow dung for memorial purposes. 
(h) Specimens of the Gourd family for photographic material were 
supplied to the Municipal Agriculture Department. 
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