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distance from head quarters. 
The control of labour, handling of 
money, raising of sale stock, 
giving advice to purchasers on 
their gardens, giving aid to 
Municipalities, and other bodies are suitable 
who control public parks. 
The duties of the horticultural 
officers are such that Europeans alone 
x . 
It should develop into 
importance. 
The Director will need to join 
clubs in Penang and Kuala 
Lumpor, the better to keep in 
touch with public men and 
should receive a small sum added 
to his salary to meet such 
expenses. 
y 
A possible contingency used 
in illustration of one wsel^ 
of the labo ratory now under 
erection. 
The Worts travelling fund has 
J_ X « I < ^ 
The Head quarters of the Department 
remain at Singapore, for two reasons 
(I) that Singapore is upon one of the 
world's greatest highways, and (2) is 
the educational centre of the Malay 
Peninsula, These two reasons outweigh 
the two in favour of Kuala Lumpor which 
are (I) the proximity there of the Agri¬ 
cultural Department's head quarters, 
and (2) of the Forest services head 
quarters. By reason of having an import 
tant Garden in Kuala Lumpor, the Director 
of Gardens is often there, and Is in 
complete touoh with the Agricultural 
and Forest Departments, 
The Director of Gardens spends more time 
on tour than formerly, and to compensate 
for that has a native assistant in 
Singapore whose work is especially in the 
Laboratory and Hebarium, 
At this date (1925) Mr.X a Cambridge 
graduate*with the aid of the Worts 
in the peet td»n “ *° rkin8 ln 
i! iFjSSJtV Urr U ‘ > “ * “ Udy " f “• tran ®Plration of 
Ju«t taien a dear... forett trea aaadllnga, a question of pure 
botany but of great practical interest if 
* 
thereby we come to understand how it is 
that giant forest trees whose leaves 
stand sun and wind get over the dlfficul- 
ties of early growth in deep shade. And 
Mr. X. an American botanist, gas recently 
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