Import and Export Office, 
Singapore, 13th February, 1923. 
I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter 
of the 8th instant and to thank you for th# copy of the Malayan 
Agricultural Journal showing the regulations controlling the 
importation of plants into the Straits Settlements, and Fed- 
erated Malay States and Johore. 
2. I shall be pleased to do anything in my power to co¬ 
operate with the Agricultural Department in the matter of 
the importation of certain plants under licence. 
, 3. As regards the raw .cotton with seeds which is grown 
in Sumatra and imported here in considerable quantities for 
transhipment to Japan and China as this trade is practically 
a carrying and Qomnission Agents 1 trade and amounts to a large 
sum in twelve months, I am of opinion that as little inter¬ 
ference with it as possible would be advisable, as the cotton 
is practically not even unpacked here b$tt transferred from 
one vessel to another, or may be to a godown should the on- 
carrying steamer not be in port. 
4. If you can spare two or three copies of the Journal 
I shall be glad to have them for use in the other Registries, 
I have the honour to be, 
Sir, 
Your obedient sefvant, 
The Director of Gardens, 
Botanical Garden, 
Singapore. 
